On 24/08/16 15:08, Pacho Ramos wrote: > This reminds me a question I have for some time: is it documented in > some place what are the steps to follow for updating old systems? I > remember posts like: > http://blog.siphos.be/2013/12/upgrading-old-gentoo-installations/ > > but I don't know if that is "official" or a workaround or... :/ > > Thanks a lot for the info! > I'll confess I've often resorted back to a stage3, and simply installed packages from /var/lib/portage/world .. or you can be bold and copy it over, and see what breaks. But I am interested in the process you linked .. its just not very accessible without the older snapshots. Dunno whether there is a convenient way to "roll-back" gentoo, besides doing a git checkout of the tree, and progressively working back from a suitable snapshot ....
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