From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lennier.cc.vt.edu (lennier.cc.vt.edu [198.82.162.213]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j42FrQrQ032474 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 15:53:26 GMT Received: from vivi.cc.vt.edu (IDENT:mirapoint@evil-vivi.cc.vt.edu [10.1.1.12]) by lennier.cc.vt.edu (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id j42FrXgW001726 for ; Mon, 2 May 2005 11:53:33 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.2] (68-232-96-93.chvlva.adelphia.net [68.232.96.93]) by vivi.cc.vt.edu (MOS 3.5.7-GR) with ESMTP id DCB99862 (AUTH spbecker); Mon, 2 May 2005 11:53:28 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42764CF6.4020608@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 02 May 2005 11:53:26 -0400 From: "Stephen P. Becker" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050401) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Cutting down on non-cascaded profiles References: <4274ACD1.9020003@gentoo.org> <4274B10C.5060507@longlandclan.hopto.org> <42763F57.6080206@flaska.net> In-Reply-To: <42763F57.6080206@flaska.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4e29ca4e-3adf-4be6-bdb0-f2013d7e1cda X-Archives-Hash: 5ceba28d9016272716b854b29f20427b > What would happen to users having *really* old version of Gentoo, say > something from end of 2003? Is there an easy way to upgrade? > > TIA, > -jkt > Portage should have been warning such users about using a deprecated profile for some time now. So, they should have updated to a new profile by now. Surely most people have synced portage sometime recently and done an emerge -uD world. If somebody is using a portage snapshot from two years ago, they have more problems than a deprecated profile. You do realize that for the most part, gentoo versions don't mean very much, right? A gentoo install is as current as the portage tree, no matter what installer was used. -Steve -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list