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tactless
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Location: Mitzpe Adi, Israel
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 Posted: Thu Aug 01, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject: What happens when Gentoo 1.3 gets released? |
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I've downloaded and installed my system with the Gentoo 1.2 stage1 tarball rather recently... but now I see that Gentoo 1.3, with GCC-3.1 as the default compiler is coming soon. I'm guessing that portage, being (mostly) source-code based, will keep being updated for Gentoo 1.2, but what if I indeed want to try Gentoo 1.3? Will I have to wipe my root partition and start from scratch using the new tarball? Or can I do the whole thing gradually? What does "breaking binary compatibility" even mean???
Someone please deconfuse me...
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BonezTheGoon
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Joined: 14 Jun 2002
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Location: Albuquerque, NM -- birthplace of Microsoft and Gentoo
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You can continue to compile your ebuilds with the GCC2.95 compiler for quite a while. You can also update to the newer system without wiping your system by doing (a careful) emerge -u world. I would probably recommend waiting for some detailed directions to come out (like maybe it would be smart to do emerge -u system and then emerge -u world, dunno) like Spider had when Gnome2 came out--it was posted in the forums.
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Techie2000
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I'd think you'd have to do:
emerge gcc-3.1
emerge clean
emerge -ep world |
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