First Its important to note that gentoo users can upgrade all packages to current level by the "emerge -u world" command. But their system may not be equal to the current Gentoo release, so here we go.

My system runs ~x86 (unstable), and is pretty clutterd. Some things are broke, some are hacked to work. But all in all a good running system.

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OK Im ready - Lets go:

First make sure you have the gentoolkit installed:

Then make sure you have a current portage:


<<Now may be a good time for a backup (/etc)>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>.
Now time for the fun:

First we need to update your profile to the current one. Come to find out I was useing the 2004.1 profile.

Remove old profile:


Now link to the current profile:


Note: Replace the above X.X with the current release.

Once that is done its time to upgrade your Gentoo:

First check for dependency problems:


From here you may need to adjust your settings in /etc/portage. I found out I had a package masked in /etc/portage/package.mask that I forgot about. Once all that was worked out:



For me I had 99 Packages to upgrade. I normally dont do a --deep option when upgrading. Also running ~x86 makes this even more dangerous.

But here are the next steps Ill take:

<<cut from Gentoo docs>>


So now its time to remove the orphaned dependencies.

First again check for dependency issues:


Some people have reported that this step has tried to unmerge sys-apps/slocate and net-misc/dhcpcd so a edit of your world file may be in order! Once all checks out:

I found depclean wanted to unemerge two packages I needed: net-misc/dhcpcd and dev-java/blackdown-jre



Now you should have a clean(er) system. But to make sure you didnt break any dependency:

Recheck all dependency issues and reinstall if needed:



Have fun - Hope it works as good for you as it did for me


Some Sites I got my idea / info from:

http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=2...asc&start=0

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/hand...rt=2&chap=1

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-upgrading.xml

Gentoo Rocks

Excellent guide ac! Thanks!

Guess what I'll be doing this afternoon

Ahhh.... Gentoo

EDIT: Done! All up to date and shiny - also a noticeable increase in portage speed.

depclean wanted to take out half my system though, including gnome, gimp, abiword, ut2004, doom3 and a whole lot more! My world file is way long now...

Yes, and just like you running "gentoo unstable" I run fedora/rawhide(unstable) and all it takes for me is



Maybe


That's it

The only diff is mine is updated in minutes rather than hours.


The same can be said for many distro's.

urpmi.update -a -v && urpmi --auto-select -v

(-v -verbose- is optional)

huh, for some reason I thought this was part of the other post, did it get split or was I on the crack pipe again

Huh... big deal.
pacman -Syu does the same thing in Arch in much less time than Fedora (or apt-get update / apt-get upgrade does in any Debian).
Thought the thread was about Gentoo- was it?

In the next Saga of "How fast to upgrade Distro Wars!"

Much less time between binary distro's is probably more subjective than reality. Binary vs. Source is easy to figure out which one is faster!

Man this place always seems to make me smile.

As soon as everyone realizes that all Distro's are sub Gentoo then you'll be on the right path.



./super_flame_vest

Theres a chance I was using gentoo before you started using Linux, but I'm only guessing since I don't know how long you have been in Linux.

Gentoo isn't bad at all, in the distro list, I would put them in 2 or 3 with Ubuntu.

None of them do all I want like Fedora does so BLAH!

lol

I started back in RH 5.2 I think it was called Hurrican but never really got serious until 9.0.

Ah yes back in the "Texstar" packages for Mandrake.


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Im building a 64bit cpu soon - Whats the best Distro (most packages) for a 64bit system?

pacman -Syu

I didn't use rh back then I used suse/slackware

As far as 64, your going to shoot me but I would say Fedora of course

My reasons are follows,

There are a ton of apps/programs, uses multilib, I moved to rawhide sometime early in fc3 and right about fc4t1 came out they moved almost everything over to gcc4, source based doesn't really optimize anything on a 64 (i have tried gentoo on it)

Gentoo-64: Good, but still compile times will always blow, they don't seem to have everything together yet, everytime I've ran it on the 64, seems to bounce back and forth. gcc3.4.3 is standard so you will have to go through the pains of recompiling, not as bleeding edge as rawhide.

Ubuntu-64, no multilib <---- pretty much finishes it for me

Suse, can't stand them

mdk64, used to be pay-to-play and I"ve never been a mandy fan anyway.

Thanks

Wow - I made this how to a long time ago. I'm not sure how relevant it is now. May want to bury it.

I think:



should do the trick and you're done

Buried. There'll be better information on the gentoo wiki and in their documentation.