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Re: [gentoo-user] smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

Alan McKinnon

2008-04-30

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On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 29. April 2008 schrieb ext Alan McKinnon:
>
> Some small corrections:
> > > What is the smoothest way to do it?
> >
> > change profile
> > emerge --sync
> > emerge -avuND world
>
> First sync, then change profile. Remember, the profiles are in the
> tree.

Doh. My bad. Thanks.

> > > How might I manage to change the current profile from x86/2006 to
> > > x86/2008
> >
> > ln -s /var/portage/profiles/default-linux/2008.0/desktop
> > /etc/make.profile
>
> This is a link to a directory, so if it already exists, the correct
> options would be "-sfn". Otherwise you'll end up with something you
> don't expect.

Double doh :-)

Thanks for the corrections - well spotted

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