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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] converting from testing to stable SLOWLY
Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:18:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu9ipa8g8d1.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)

A few months ago a procedure was given for converting from testing to
stable (e.g. ~amd64-->~amd) by essentially waiting for stable to catch
up.

I believe the basic idea was to unmask a bunch of packages and then as
stable catches up, remove the unmasks.  I also believe there was some
automated way to generate the unmasks and maybe a way to see when each
is not needed.

Can someone repost this msg?
I foolishly did not save it and now want to convert a system to stable
and can afford to do so slowly.

thanks,
allan


             reply	other threads:[~2012-10-17 20:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-10-17 20:18 Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2012-10-17 20:51 ` [gentoo-user] converting from testing to stable SLOWLY Florian Philipp
2012-10-17 20:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-17 21:49   ` Neil Bothwick
2012-10-17 22:29   ` Allan Gottlieb
2013-12-20 22:34     ` gottlieb
2013-12-21  0:08       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-12-21  0:19         ` gottlieb
2013-12-22  1:20         ` [gentoo-user] " walt

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