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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] base-system needs developers who care
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El mié, 24-08-2016 a las 16:05 +0200, Lars Wendler escribió:
> 
[...]
> Oh, and to all new team members:
> Please keep in mind to *not* use EAPI-6 for base-system packages yet,
> so
> we can retain a somewhat stable upgrade path even for very old
> systems.
> 
> 
> Kind regards
> Lars

This reminds me a question I have for some time: is it documented in
some place what are the steps to follow for updating old systems? I
remember posts like:
http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/

but I don't know if that is "official" or a workaround or... :/

Thanks a lot for the info!