On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 16:18:50 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > 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.
You can generate the list with qlist -ICv | sed -e 's/^/~/' -e 's/-r[1-9]$//' >/etc/portage/package.use/goingstable This allows revision updates, which is useful as they usually contain bug or security fixes, but doesn't allow any higher versions. Occasionally running eix-test-obsolete will let you know which entries have become redundant because stable has caught up with them. -- Neil Bothwick Committee (noun): A group of people spending hours taking minutes
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