From: Gerrit Kuehn <gerrit.kuehn@aei.mpg.de>
To: Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com>
Cc: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:52:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210920165203.5aeb17c1@comet2.terra.ger> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2044997.OBFZWjSADL@lenovo.localdomain>
On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 15:29:30 +0100
Michael <confabulate@kintzios.com> wrote:
> With a year old system you should question if reinstalling your
> system after a back up of configuration and data files would be a
> smarter approach. If you *must* upgrade your current installation
> for learning or as an experiment, then this is something which has
> been done before.
I know. I'm a happy Gentoo user for more than 20 years now. However,
this is the master installation for a diskless setup providing the
baseline for more than a dozen servers. Of course, I can still reinstall
but this would be more work than just one machine + a few config files.
As one year is not too terribly old (imho) and this looked like
something that might be easily solved, I decided to ask for advice here
first.
> Personally, I'd back up /home /etc and world file, plus any databases
> or websites if stored under /var/, then untar the latest stage 3
> tarball and update @system and @world.
Just extracting stage3 over everything that is already there?
> Overall it should be a *much*
> faster approach to allow you to bring your installation up to date.
Well, yeah, your mileage may vary.
cu
Gerrit
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-09-20 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-20 12:50 [gentoo-user] python, my nemesis Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 13:18 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-09-20 13:56 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 14:29 ` Michael
2021-09-20 14:52 ` Gerrit Kuehn [this message]
2021-09-20 15:20 ` Michael
2021-09-20 15:40 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 16:02 ` Laurence Perkins
2021-09-20 17:19 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2021-09-21 16:29 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 14:34 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Orlitzky
2021-09-20 15:00 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 15:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-09-20 15:30 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 15:47 ` Laurence Perkins
2021-09-20 14:31 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 14:40 ` Gerrit Kuehn
2021-09-20 14:41 ` Arve Barsnes
2021-09-20 14:58 ` Gerrit Kuehn
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