having fun upgrading an old system (2-3-years old)

Joseph_sys

I'm trying to upgrade an old system, not even sure how long ago it was upgraded the last time),
here is emerge info:

The Doctor · l33t Joined: 27 Jul 2010 Posts: 972

With a laptop about 6-8 months out of date, the easiest thing was to unmerge just about everything, xorg, de, etc, and update the base system and then reinstall. Honestly, a full reinstall looks like it might be easier than an update if it has not been updated since baselayout 2.

That is just my opinion, I am sure you will get plenty more.
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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:05 am Post subject:

I'm trying to challenge myself :-/
right now "emerge portage" is running OK, we will see what will develop next :-)

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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 6:38 am Post subject:

Should I try to upgrade "dev-lagn/perl" or go for baselaout2 first.

running: emerge -av dev-lang/perl gives me:

Trog Dog · Apprentice Joined: 04 Aug 2007 Posts: 282

Have you checked out update old system to 10.0 or 2008.1

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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 3:17 pm Post subject:

Clad in Sky · l33t Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 657 Location: Germany

Good choice.
I usually only update my gf's system once in about 6 months and every time I swear that in the future I will do it at least once a month because it is such a major pain in the backside.
I found that doing an emerge ... -pv and updating manually works best. But you have a baselayout, probably libpng, perl, python and several updates all in one - that might prove more hassle and work than setting up a new system.
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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 11:58 pm Post subject:

Jaglover · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:05 am Post subject:

You'll find glibc/gcc upgrade is even more complicated. You cannot do at one swell swoop, you have to use intermediate versions which are [probably] not available in portage any more.
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alexbuell · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:10 am Post subject:

I had to do this a while back for an old box. Using revdep-rebuild and --keep-going I was able to get it updated. It just takes a lot of time to get it all updated.

Enjoy.
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Joseph_sys · Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:58 am Post subject:

I loaded (upgraded) a new kernel but my network interface eth0 was not recognized, based on Realtek r8169 driver.
So I booted from (latest x86) minimal-cd and the network interface is working OK; so something must have change in networking configuration.
I'm getting into a conclusion, that it will be too much time consuming to try to figure it out :-/
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Freeky · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 12:58 pm Post subject:

I have the same ethernet card. Check this one at your kernel config:

Joseph_sys · Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 1:05 pm Post subject:

pigeon768 · l33t Joined: 02 Jan 2006 Posts: 667

Your first priority is going to be getting portage up to date. To get portage up to date, it's likely that you'll need to get python relatively not-old. Upgrade one to the latest version possible, then upgrade the other to the latest version possible, rinse, repeat.

You'll have to do most things manually.
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kopp · Posted: Tue May 01, 2012 1:49 pm Post subject:

I managed to do over a year old update several time (my old computer that i update only once in a while, it has seen less than 10 real updates since 2006.
It has often been a real PITA, i had to resort to using liveCD and chroot several times, because of uncompatible kernel and software (eg udev) but it is manageable...) Last update is becoming old, I should maybe look over it