From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qjxb8-00069E-WB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:03:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C51A021C328; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:03:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f52.google.com (mail-fx0-f52.google.com [209.85.161.52]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DED021C032 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 18:01:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxd18 with SMTP id 18so3887860fxd.11 for ; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:01:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:user-agent:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:content-transfer-encoding:content-type; bh=rn62zMRkMo078ikEnAn5yWBMJlsHjhPUtGQAq0i3ubA=; b=awH6fBci2o/uYep0/BV8YenlwuwXjZ1iji8a/zzOmwSdp8h8wZY3UoXjloGyDEIT71 VwreGVVaohHuHYnzIi2cucOHzKbZFkwcjDmv5lC7mQlsDem7DZBx3aJxksSgFEGnnTpH 5dRvoilIaEHJGPGYTywd+strfqlCI2/uMLZIk= Received: by 10.223.24.92 with SMTP id u28mr603791fab.148.1311271299333; Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:01:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localnet (p4FC7420E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.199.66.14]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id p17sm1546007fak.1.2011.07.21.11.01.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 21 Jul 2011 11:01:38 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Upgrade query Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2011 20:01:31 +0200 Message-ID: <1793114.Av8WtvjpGF@localhost> User-Agent: KMail/4.7 rc2 (Linux/2.6.39.3; KDE/4.6.95; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <425067986-1311242498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-798183566-@b11.c20.bise7.blackberry> References: <425067986-1311242498-cardhu_decombobulator_blackberry.rim.net-798183566-@b11.c20.bise7.blackberry> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d6f7c95250a25ba8f67c89e14665e756 On Thursday 21 July 2011 10:01:10 jdm@jdm.myzen.co.uk wrote: > A little advice please? I am about to build a new box going from athlon dual > core to phenom six core. Including new sata drives and motherboard. I was > going to clone all my partitions and the re emerged all packages with march > native > Firstly would you reccommend cloning and if so what is best technology? > > Second is a complete reinstall a better option or safer? are you using ACLs? if not a good old cp -auv is sufficient. But.. why clone the system? This is a good chance to get rid of cruft and forgotten packages. A clean installation (and copied /etc) might not be a bad choice. -- #163933