On Thu, Aug 2, 2012 at 7:13 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 2 Aug 2012 16:24:06 -0700 > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> That means your machine could be 100% testing software. At your skill >> level I do not think this is a good idea. It works for some but not >> for others.(me) >> >> I'm on my Kindle so more help is hard right now. Consider how to get >> to stable, if that is even possible. > > Hmmmm, yeaaaaaahhh, I don't think so, he's a newbie > > I once switched a host from unstable to stable and I sweated blood > and bricks to do it. IIRC correctly it involved a whole lot of manual > package masking, and that took a whole lot of grep sed and awking > emerge output. > > It was horrible. It would have been easier to reinstall. But, being a > pigheaded Gentooist, I just had to try! > > What he could do is switch ACCEPT_KEYWORDS then not do much updates for > 6 months and let stable catch up to unstable. Not ideal from a security > update POV, but better than nothing > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > >
I'd have to agree with you, Alan. I tried switching from unstable to stable once (and I'm still a newbie, so I was even more of a newb when I tried) -- I just ended up reinstalling to keep my mind from melting. This was on a standard Desktop/Gnome system, of course.
