Hi, I want to switch to the stable branch

[elover]

I've been using the ~amd64 branch since I started Gentoo many years ago, I didn't try the amd64 version until the beginning of the year. I was several months with stable branch and zero problems.

Now I want to move from ~amd64 to amd64, what do you recommend me to do, recompile GCC, Glibc, Ncurses and make emerge --ask --verbose --emptytree --with-bdeps=y @world

And another small question, I have in the make.conf set to protect configurations with CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc/conf.d/consolefont /etc/locale.gen /etc/conf.d/keymaps /etc/eixrc/00-eixrc" but it seems that it doesn't work, I don't know why

[xgivolari]

To absolutely make sure the toolchain works, I would start with this: linux-headers -> glibc -> binutils -> gcc -> libtool, and maybe even glibc -> binutils -> gcc -> libtool again. (note that different versions of binutils and gcc require you to manually select them using eselect, something I tend to forget ) Furthermore, a rebuild like this will probably trigger the ol' freetype-harfbuzz circular dependency again, so it might be prudent to temporarily disable USE="harfbuzz" on freetype.

[elover]

Hello, thanks for your reply
Glibc can't be downgraded, I'll use the one I have and then I'll tell you if I had any problem

[NeddySeagoon]

elover,

Change your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS and see what emerge wants to downgrade.
Look at the list carefully.
If glibc is there, mask it at the installed version. Downgrading glibc can break lots of things, so portage won't let you.

The usual advice is not to downgrade ... let stable catch you up.
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[lekto]

I did it already three times (~amd64 => amd64) this way:
1. Make sure you have fully updated system, no packages that can't be updated because of conflicts etc.
2. Change your ACCEPT_KEYWORDS.
3. Try to update your system, but do not let it do it, instead put all currently installed packages (with currently installed version) that need to be downgraded into package.accept_keywords (on my last machine that was about 300 packages)
4. Now when you try to update system there should be nothing to update/downgrade.
5. Update your system as usual.
When you do it this way you will be emerging few packages at time, which is easier to debug than after rebuilding half of the system.

Now when updating system make sure it doesn't want downgrade anything important like glibc (broken system) or firefox (broken profile). If it wants just bump version in package.accept_keywords to the nearest version.
When I want to clean package.accept_keywords I run this command to show me what I can remove (change package.accept_keyword/amd64 to whatever you used):

[forrestfunk81]

I would also update the system, freeze the currently installed versions in accept_keywords and then wait for stable to catch up.

[asturm]

[sabayonino]

[forrestfunk81]

[sabayonino]

If you need to rebuild amd64 keywords packages (stable) , you don't need to set the package version.
Portage will downgrade to the latest stable version available in the tree

[Zucca]