From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-dev List <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Is it possible ...
Date: 22 Jun 2002 13:55:14 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1024725314.31626.10.camel@rattus> (raw)
An interesting idea ... rather than wipe my mandrake 8.1 system, can I
copy portage, and its tools over and gradually replace mandrake with
gentoo. I realise anything mandrake specific will break big time, but
it seems possible, in theory at least to remove mandrake packages then
emerge the gentoo versions. All X stuff will probably have to go in one
lump, but system stuff should be OK - its easier to fix problems one at
a time with full control than start from scratch. Eventually I would be
in a position where only a ghost of Mandrake would remain.
Why? I want to keep using my system whilst this is going on - being out
of action for a week or more whilst I first load the OS and then
configure it to my customised requirements is not so attractive - then
neither is the similar time frame to wipe and install mandrake 8.2, so I
am looking for a shortcut!
Has anyone tried something like this ... and been successful? I suspect
I will have to start with things like gcc, python etc and go drom there.
BillK
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Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
next reply other threads:[~2002-06-24 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-06-22 5:55 Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2002-06-24 9:06 ` [gentoo-dev] Is it possible Ladislav Bodnar
2002-06-24 9:14 ` Christophe Vanfleteren
2002-06-24 13:27 ` Brandon Low
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