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jonsjo
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 Posted: Fri Oct 05, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject: Updating from old gentoo |
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Hello,
Just picked up one of my old machines containing a old version of gentoo installed in 2004.
The first thing I've tried was to make an
to try to update it.. in the end it sais:
| Quote: | deleting app-admin/tenshi/tenshi-0.9.ebuild
deleting app-admin/tenshi/files/digest-tenshi-0.9
deleting app-admin/syslog-ng/syslog-ng-2.0.4.ebuild
deleting app-admin/syslog-ng/files/digest-syslog-ng-2.0.4
Number of files: 151796
Number of files transferred: 3353
Total file size: 176870931 bytes
Total transferred file size: 11023631 bytes
Literal data: 11023631 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 3540821
Total bytes sent: 67209
Total bytes received: 14716641
sent 67209 bytes received 14716641 bytes 201140.82 bytes/sec
total size is 176870931 speedup is 11.96
>>> Updating Portage cache... /!!! Cannot resolve a virtual package name to an ebuild.
!!! This is a bug, please report it. (virtual/c++-tr1-functional-0) |
How do I fix that? |
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likewhoa
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switch profiles to 2007.0 then emerge --sync after.
also look at gentoo upgrading |
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padoor
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practically you will have to start from scratch.
so many changes have occured after 2004
it is not worth spending so much time to upgrade from 2004 which is almost impossible.
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likewhoa
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keyword almost.
it doesn't hurt to try. |
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desultory
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jonsjo
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | switch profiles to 2007.0 then emerge --sync after. |
How do I switch to a profile?
| Quote: | | practically you will have to start from scratch |
The reason why I dont want to reinstall the entire computer is that I have a lot of old servecis (now requested from a customer) running on it.. Just wanna upgrade the entire systems..=) |
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mark_alec
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jonsjo
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Is there some way to se what version I'm running now? |
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mark_alec
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| Posted: Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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| jonsjo wrote: | | Is there some way to se what version I'm running now? |
readlink -f /etc/make.profile/
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| Posted: Mon Oct 08, 2007 7:20 am Post subject: |
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| padoor wrote: | practically you will have to start from scratch.
so many changes have occured after 2004
it is not worth spending so much time to upgrade from 2004 which is almost impossible. |
I agree - Even going from 2005.0 to 2006.1 was excruciatingly painful - I ended up just wiping the system and rebuilding it because it was FAR simpler.
Upgrading from abandoned versions is almost as painful as trying to do an in-place upgrade of a binary-based OS.
You can do it if you have lots of time to weedle through all the little niggles, but backup like hell first if you even think of trying to upgrade from 2004 because if it was anyling like my experience, you will probably break something that stops everything from working...
Is is so hard to re-install the current apps you have on a clean build? |
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padoor
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i would run the same system without disturbing it for the present to serve clients.
make a new partition and install stage3 and snapshot. after you can transfer these services to new successful installation you can remove the old system.
i am sure your computer will have more downtime if you try to upgrade from 2004. portage itself get stuck as you have already seen. take care. of the clients i mean.
The reason why I dont want to reinstall the entire computer is that I have a lot of old servecis (now requested from a customer) running on it.. Just wanna upgrade the entire systems..=)
it is not defenitely just upgrade. troubles to expect expat problems and other missing packages in the portage . there may not be replacements available for your current desktop gui version if any.
i am not trying to discourrage you. but as you say customer requests are to be maintained try a new install in another partition.
eselect profile list will show available profiles.
eselect profiles set (the number you want to set.)
you probably have to emerge eselect which may or may not be there for your old bash.
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