Re: [gentoo-user] New profiles 23.0

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Michael wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 March 2024 17:33:17 GMT Dale wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
> I suggest it would be best to take heed of the devs hard work and read the 
> instructions they have provided instead of winging it:
>
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_update_instructions
>


I just read the news item which kinda says what I posted.  It listed a
couple examples as well.  I just went with what I have in case it would
clear up any muddy waters. 

In my chroot, I'm to the gcc build.

Dale

:-)  :-)