On Saturday, 23 March 2024 15:08:56 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:59:15 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote: > > Hello list, > > > > Has anyone tried the profile upgrade that was notified today? I tried it > > just now on a small rescue system and it failed on installing the first > > binary package, complaining that my disk layout was split-usr. > > > > My /var is on a separate partition, for easy of file recovery, but /usr is > > not. Is this the cause of the problem? > > Please ignore that. Three seconds later I realised what I should have done: > run emerge-usr first.
The advice on the e-news item is to switch to the new 23.0 profile first using the same fs structure you currently have and then to proceed with the migration to a merged-usr. Therefore if you have a split usr fs structure, you need to select a 'split- usr' 23.0 profile.
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