Re: [gentoo-user] from 2005.0 to 2005.1

[Eugene Rosenzweig <eugene259@internode.on.net>]

Holly Bostick wrote:

>Allan Spagnol Comar schreef:
>  
>
>>it is necessary to make any changes to get the packages from version
>>2005.1 while using 2005.0.
>>
>>I read somewhere that we should change the symlink /etc/make.profile
>>to the new 2005.1 profile and resync, I dided and after sync there
>>where no updates for my system. Is this right ?
>>
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>Probably, assuming that you normally keep your packages up to date.
>
>Profiles mean "nothing"-- insofar as portage doesn't "divide" packages
>based on profile. In other words, it's not as if baselayout 1.11.13 is
>only available to the 2005.1 profile, while the 2005.0 profile can only
>have 1.9.4-r6 or something. Portage does sometimes disable or enable
>certain USE flags based on profile, but this is unlikely to be a big
>issue unless you're changing to a completely different profile (i.e.,
>from default x86 to selinux or something). And in any case, the profile
>is regularly incrementally updated, most likely to reflect critical
>updates (ever notice that "Performing Global Updates" that Portage
>sometimes delays your emerge with?).
>
>The profile is really only an issue on initial install. After that, it's
>fairly irrelevant to daily life (until Portage flatly says to upgrade it
>as the old profiles are unsupported-- most likely meaning that they will
>not be updated to reflect "things we know now that we didn't know when
>we designed the old profile"). But otherwise, I'm sure there's still a
>couple of people around here with the 1.4 profile, and definitely some
>with a 2004 profile-- because the profile "name" is not particularly
>important once Gentoo is actually up and running.
>
>So it's not that you got "bad" advice, but I would say that "we *should*
>change the profile symlink" is probably too strong a term, as far as
>advice goes. If you really, really have to change the profile, Portage
>will tell you to do so; otherwise it's just cosmetic.
>
>As far as I know :-) .
>
>Holly
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>
Just to add, /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/packages vs 
/usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.0/packages it is not that 
different anyway. Not that's that any indication of anything.

I wish there were Release Notes supplied with the announcement of the 
new release to satisfy curiosity of what is new/different in this release.

Eugene.


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