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 1SDWhN-0005e5-Hv for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:56:41 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DEAA1E0AA6; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:56:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 23889E093A for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 07:54:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.133] (helo=smtp2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDWfb-00089w-E0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:54:51 +0200 Received: from 5ed027d6.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.214] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SDWfb-0003gt-7w for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:54:51 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C49782A8F for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:56:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id StyViuIKaZu6 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:56:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from www.antarean.org (net.antarean.org [10.10.11.5]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A40E1E15 for ; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:56:32 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 10.10.11.1 (SquirrelMail authenticated user joost) by www.antarean.org with HTTP; Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:56:32 +0200 Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <20120330072326.GA2423@nicolas-desktop> References: <4F72149D.7060605@darkmetatron.de> <4F721D30.8090400@gmail.com> <4F722735.90500@gmail.com> <4F72348A.2060407@gmail.com> <4F7240B6.4000702@gmail.com> <20120330072326.GA2423@nicolas-desktop> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 09:56:32 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: InitRAMFS - boot expert sought From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.21 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-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Ziggo-spambar: / X-Ziggo-spamscore: 0.4 X-Ziggo-spamreport: KHOP_DYNAMIC=0.001,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.363,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-0.01 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: edf7e87e-8f1c-4413-9cde-8dad3436cef2 X-Archives-Hash: 2f17d3a772f7e14b862b013b01a120c2 On Fri, March 30, 2012 9:23 am, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The 29/03/12, J. Roeleveld wrote: >> >> On Wed, March 28, 2012 12:49 am, Mark Knecht wrote: >> >> >> >> > Do nothing. Just read, watch, learn but most important don't do >> > updates. Just wait. Patience is a virtue! >> >> I wonder how many threads we'll get with "I haven't updated my Gentoo >> for >> over a year, how do I best do the upgrade?" from people following this >> advice? > > I think there is a better thing to do. Use an initramfs. > > This is not hell! ;-) I'm not saying it is or isn't. I just don't understand why "not upgrading for a while" is given as an option considering the issues people will encounter when they try upgrading a Gentoo installation that hasn't been updated in a long time. --=20 Joost