On 07/16/2011 12:53 PM, Stroller wrote: > > I have no illusions that attempting this *will* be a pain the ass, > because in the past I've updated machines which have been ignored for > 18 months, and that required lots of manually digging in the Portage > CVS attic and copying files into the local overlay by hand. >
Couldn't you just extract a stage3/snapshot in the root, and then emerge -e world? I haven't tried it naturally, but it sounds like a good idea to me at this moment.
