From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 743671381F3 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:47:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A6D8E0D8E; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 635C9E0788 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 13:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f53.google.com with SMTP id d7so1674871bkh.12 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:47:33 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=yJJXKJMowdBBCxxRwf8mbJuZvtK9mwjwOsgSm3TqzBw=; b=NDuLMFGGHyAUaI0QfIaIovmiMrVcR/cVGjmYy2UMgGqwCIyUh8qy9q3bM29avGXLuB 15XkDlJfs/t8agTr1SWbtAE7YPXOdQ5QB3vUs0UEz/cWobGfXeq/FdKFzMPI/NTFKcdL l2yUONsSZ4Js2li0dJlApTWJCbSU2TySRu/tUB+3FwPO9SZx7b1y4aB6s4nsOt595SQq PrRwP9uw/KOntaHG7TMtRIrgDjqcNMTl8K+wPXNoKvUoS00oFvy8YGqfkDIaPfwAN0+u H9qK9E+hZPVYS3EeMq6YVvM6zYlmLzbJ1eVbU+hP8ucK+Aj/NewBXqu7Y9mD0iQNcuvM OE3A== X-Received: by 10.205.10.132 with SMTP id pa4mr14693135bkb.15.1377611253771; Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.41] (196-210-127-149.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.149]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id nv4sm4497757bkb.3.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Tue, 27 Aug 2013 06:47:33 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <521CAD20.1080101@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 15:44:00 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Optional /usr merge in Gentoo References: <520A5446.1050001@mail.ru> <520DA782.4050803@sporkbox.us> <520F6333.70301@dmj.nu> <9716EEEB-144F-47AA-A828-FC9A508CE9FA@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <521090F5.4090305@gmail.com> <521122CB.4010003@libertytrek.org> <521A7EE9.8000706@gmail.com> <521AF45C.1010206@gmail.com> <521C8F22.9060200@libertytrek.org> <521C90B2.3020805@gmail.com> <521C9622.2070206@libertytrek.org> <521CA38F.3050307@gmail.com> <521CA59D.9060504@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <521CA59D.9060504@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 5d534d90-fcad-46f8-9edf-ad9e219866d7 X-Archives-Hash: 94595026f5ef794b11902540c736d48d On 27/08/2013 15:11, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2013-08-27 9:03 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> Each major.minor version has a .pdf manual published, while the next >> version is in development, the docs get updated on a wiki and the final >> version is an export of that. There's a forum with knowledgeable users >> and the devs hang around just in case regular users can't help with a >> question. > > Ok, that brings up another issue... > > One thing I've always loved about gentoo is it is a rolling release, > which means no 'major update' pains to speak of (at least not like > binary based distros like redhat etc)... > > So, have you ever gone through any major system updates, and if so, any > issues to speak of? > > Thanks again for sharing this... > No issues ever whatsoever. An upgrade is almost exactly the same as upgrading firmware on your DSL router or reflashing OpenElec[1]. The longest part is waiting for the NAS to reboot twice and get through whatever your disk controller does at power up :-) Once in the early days I had an incompatible database format for configs and got a message at the start, so I had to do something manually to get past that. But that was long ago. These days the migration script always just dealt with it properly. [1] another awesome project that JustWorks. I'm getting to like these Unix-based appliances that JustWork. if I need to get under the overs and tweak stuff, I can. Most mostly I don't need to :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com