Gentoo 1.4 Beta?

bazik · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 12:48 pm Post subject: Gentoo 1.4 Beta?

Don't you guys announce anything?

http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo/releases/build/1.4_beta/

Gonna make emerge -e world soon

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 1:49 pm Post subject:

Many things are announced, few people search before posting. Here is a post by a developer.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon

bazik · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 2:05 pm Post subject:

Hehe, ok its nothing new (mods can delete this thread).

I simply never look in PPC Forum

BonezTheGoon · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 2:15 pm Post subject:

Don't worry about it, I too am guilty. I even had one of my posts closed, ouch. Anyway, I was mostly joking around--admittedly they look to be very different topics by the titles.

Regards,
BonezTheGoon

Martin · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 4:43 pm Post subject:

Anyone tried it out yet?

I think I'll give it a spin tonight :O)

pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20099

I would assume something in a PPC forum was specifically for PPC.
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AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

Yeah I'm in the process now of completing a 1.4 install, but I got a kernel panic at my first boot. Working on the problem which oddly says /dev/hda3 not found but my fstab and partition is there and correct, I think it is a kernel issue.
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phong · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 5:29 pm Post subject:

I'm going to try it tonight as well - I have more fun breaking and recompiling my system than actually using it for anything useful, so I might as well!

rommel · Posted: Tue Aug 06, 2002 8:50 pm Post subject:

i agree with phong...a working system is USELESS!...well boring anyway

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

ok dumb question time.....

will there be some sort of update for users of gentto 1.2, ie. something which we can emerge ? which will give us this new 1.4 release...I thought about downloading it(stage1.i686.1.4.tbz2) and using 'cp -ax' to make a backup of my /etc direcotry and then unpacking 1.4 and trying to merge the files out of my old /etc back into the new one and then 'emerge -e world'....but what else will be overwritten/erased besides the files in /etc if I unpack the 1.4 into the / direcotry(I mean configuration files, or particular files I have created...not a listing of all the /lib- /bin- /usr/-/etc stuff contained in the 1.4.tbz2 file....ie. can I simply rescue my settings and do a 1.4 install ontop of my 1.2 ?oh redundancy, again !

thanks in advance

AutoBot · l33t Joined: 22 Apr 2002 Posts: 968 Location: Usually Out

I still cannot boot, something is screwy with the 1.4 stage 3 tarball.
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Dolio · l33t Joined: 17 Jun 2002 Posts: 650

I believe that to upgrade from 1.2 to 1.4 (once all the kinks are out), all you'll have to do is change a link in /etc (specifically, make.profile, which points to a folder in the /usr/portage/profiles directory. For 1.4 (at the moment) it's default-x86-2.0), emerge gcc3.2, bootstrap, and then emerge -e world (might be a good idea to get the rmerge script I wrote so you can resume that: get the 2.0 version). That should redo your system with gcc3.2, binutils 2.12.... and anything else that's in 1.4.

Note: hopefully a developer would confirm this, because I'm not sure whether or not you have to emerge gcc 3.2 first or bootstrap again.

But you shouldn't have to do the whole install procedure from scratch, as long as you don't mind potentially wrecking your working system. But that's what Gentoo is all about, isn't it?

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abhishek · Posted: Wed Aug 07, 2002 1:00 am Post subject:

IWBCMAN · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2002 Posts: 474

ok, I have decided to try to make the transition to 1.4....first I removed the old link /etc/make.profile and then created a new one, now pointing at 'default-x86-2.0' then I did an 'emerge -s gcc' and it listed the new gcc-3.2pre, so then I did an 'emerge gcc'(its still running!) next I plan to reboot the system, change the symbolic links, listed on this page, and do an emerge -e world....My questions are :

1) does ccache make a difference here(should I disable it....?)
2) will emerge -e world recompile everything other than glib ? ie. will I still have a lot of things compile when its finished ?
3) will I still be able to use those things I had compiled under gcc 2.95.3(ie. if emerge -e world fails on emerging a particular app will the old app still work ? -I am assuming that with the new compile all of the old libraries will be overwritten....
4) I have openoffice and mozilla installed -both of them precompiled....any tips to makin the transition to a freshly new compiled version of both(my wolrd file knows of these programs because I did an 'emerge -i openoffice-1.01' and the same for mozilla
4a.) should I edit my world file and remove these entries ?
4b) is ist so -I am assuming If I did an emerge -u opeoffice nothing would happen, because the version I have is precompiled, so portage doesn't know where its at ?
4c) should I 'cp -ax' and copy over the contents of my mozilla directory elsewhere to save my plugins mail etc. ?

what am I forgetting ? where am I likely to run into problems ?
thanks in advance......