On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Grant <emailgr...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have an old Gentoo system that hasn't been updated or used at all in > at least 2 years. It's remote but I have SSH access. I've updated > portage but I thought I should check with you guys before I plow ahead > with emerge -DuN world. It won't be used for anything until I bring > it up to speed and someone can physically log in and issue commands a > couple times per week so an outage isn't the end of the world. Any > advice? > > - Grant >
Ugh...not a fun task. First step - eix-sync then emerge -fDuN @world and see if it will fetch what you need. If it does, great. If not then you have a first look into what sort of problems you'll be dealing with. Good luck, Mark
