Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:08:56 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:59:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>> Hello list,
>>>
>>> Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it
>>> just now on a small rescue system and it failed on installing the first
>>> binary package, complaining that my disk layout was split-usr.
>>>
>>> My /var is on a separate partition, for easy of file recovery, but /usr is
>>> not. Is this the cause of the problem?
>> Please ignore that.  Three seconds later I realised what I should have done:
>> run emerge-usr first.
> No, that's wrong too. I need to do a bit of head-scratching.
>


I just did my weekly sync.  I'm currently on this profile.


  [8]   default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma (stable) *


To find the profile I want to upgrade to, I look for the same name but
with the added split-usr added, for us old fuggys who still do things
the OLD way.  ;-) 


  [48]  default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop/plasma (exp)


If one uses systemd, look for the same thing as old but with systemd. 
Same with no-multilib or some of the other options.  Basically, just
look for the same as old but with the new bits you need. 

I have a spare hard drive that I do my updates on.  It's like a stage 4
thing that I update with a script, if you can call it that, right after
syncing.  I chroot in and do my updates there.  If anything goes wrong,
I just reset back to the stage 4 and try again if worse comes to worse. 
Once done, I copy the packages over to my main system and add -k to
emerge.  It makes updates a lot faster and stable.  Sometimes during KDE
updates, things can get out of sync and things stop working.  Having
packages that take a long time to compile makes that worse.  The qt
package, LOo, Firefox etc etc.  You can be sure I'm going to do that
with this update.  It's gonna take long enough to do the -k bit much
less the actual compile part.  I seem to recall we have to do a emerge
-e world with this.  o_O

I hope that helps you pick the correct one.  I been concerned about the
switch too.  It's easy to mess up something. 

Dale

:-)  :-)