* [gentoo-dev] Is it possible ...
@ 2002-06-22 5:55 99% Bill Kenworthy
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From: Bill Kenworthy @ 2002-06-22 5:55 UTC (permalink / raw
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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>
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