Comments on: Gentoo: Tips to upgrade your really old installation

By: Steffen Schaumburg

Steffen Schaumburg — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 02:37:05 +0000

Hi,
Thanks very much for this guide. I had an even more grueling update (2005.1 to current, last tree sync June 2005, kernel 2.6.9, glibc-2.3.5, etc.). The reason why I didn’t simply reinstall is that the computer in question has a broken CD drive and doesn’t boot from USB
But using your guide as a starting point and taking it from there I managed to get it to work. Well, so far at least, but it has compiled a dozen or so packages itself already
After my girlfriend is gone in 2 weeks I’ll post a guide to gentoo-wiki.

By: Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:18:30 +0000

Hi,
You are slightly confused. There are no 10.1 profiles, eselect profile list just reads from PORTDIR/profiles/ (eg. /usr/portage/profiles/default/linux/amd64/ ). I’m assuming that you are on a stable system, you won’t see updates EVERY day, nothing to worry about.

By: Charles Green

Charles Green — Tue, 04 May 2010 17:00:09 +0000

Thanks for some excellent info!

I normally do an ‘emerge –sync && emerge –update –newuse –deep world’ on a daily basis, and typically every few days there are at least a few new package versions, but for weeks now I have seen absolutely nothing come down the pike. I’m currently running the 10.0 profile, and it appears there’s a 10.1 version out there, but it is not offered to me via ‘eselect profile list’.

It occurred to me that perhaps 10.0 is no longer being updated and 10.1 is; if so, how do I get the 10.1 profile recognized by my system so I can upgrade to it?

Or maybe the developers are just too busy with 10.1 right now to bother with 10.0??

Thanks!

By: Alejandro

Alejandro — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 19:37:46 +0000

Hello in repoman manifest part I got this error:

ks366912 bash # repoman manifest
File “/usr/bin/repoman”, line 93
os.umask(0o22)
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

I’m in 2007.0 gentoo.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 20:06:18 +0000

Thanks to this post a Gentoo 2007.0 untouched for more than a year and half has successfully been updated – and an almost retired laptop has come back to life!

Thanks a lot,
Eduardo

By: Echelon

Echelon — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 06:46:23 +0000

Freaking awesome!

I just ran [emerge --sync] to update a 2006 profile, after which all hell broke loose when trying to subsequently [emerge portage]. After running this script I was able to I ran into a very few blocked packages when trying to [emerge portage], which I resolved by emerging the problem packages independently with the [--nodeps] option. Thereafter I was able to [emerge portage] and [emerge --update --deep --newuse world] with no problems! I’m now on the latest Gentoo everything as of the date of this post (amd64/10.0).

Nick Fortino for U.S. President 2012!

By: Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:19:55 +0000

Glad you found something that worked.

By: pugelarouge

pugelarouge — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:25:39 +0000

well – it took some hours and a final reboot with fingers crossed – but my mail server is up to date running fine, thank you, thank you, thank you

By: pugelarouge

pugelarouge — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 20:18:33 +0000

looks like you saved my old mail server – no updates for many many months / years. please give yourself 3 green ticks or a gold star – or a line of something….

… anyways thank you

hopefully 25 people wont be pissed off with me in the morning

By: Jeremy Olexa

Jeremy Olexa — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 03:19:42 +0000

The comment above it says to remove the obsolete block. so, remove !< sys-apps/portage-2.1.5