Upgrade to 2008.0 profile

Robert S · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Upgrade to 2008.0 profile

I have a longstanding amd64 gentoo installation (from 2004) that has been kept reasonably up-to-date. Its coming up to time to do another update. Should I select default/linux/amd64/2008.0 (no 13) as my new profile? I see that default-linux has been replaced by default/linux:

MalleRIM · Guru Joined: 23 Jul 2007 Posts: 563 Location: China

I guess you could just try it

A profile consist mainly of use flags and hardmasks. So upgrading is actually similar to a major change to your config files.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:20 am Post subject:

Hi, can you post your current emerge --info

Because if I'm right, you should use the 2008.0/desktop profile, but if have a lot of Use Flag like the X that you have added manually, then use the 2008.0 or even remove all your manual stuff and use the 2008.0/desktop profile.

armin76 · Retired Dev Joined: 24 Apr 2006 Posts: 174

Yes, thats a pretty standard upgrade

d2_racing · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:25 am Post subject:

And by the way, run this command to upgrade all your stuff :

Robert S · Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2008 11:34 am Post subject:

Thanks. I've started it. Looks as if the main change is that the "multilib" USE flag is set and I need to recompile GCC and glibc. Looks simple.