On Saturday, 23 March 2024 17:33:17 GMT Dale wrote: > Peter Humphrey wrote: > > 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. > > > > No, that's wrong too. I need to do a bit of head-scratching. > > I just did my weekly sync. I'm currently on this profile. > > > [8] default/linux/amd64/17.1/desktop/plasma (stable) * > > > To find the profile I want to upgrade to, I look for the same name but > with the added split-usr added, for us old fuggys who still do things > the OLD way. ;-) > > > [48] default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/desktop/plasma (exp) > > > If one uses systemd, look for the same thing as old but with systemd. > Same with no-multilib or some of the other options. Basically, just > look for the same as old but with the new bits you need. > > I have a spare hard drive that I do my updates on. It's like a stage 4 > thing that I update with a script, if you can call it that, right after > syncing. I chroot in and do my updates there. If anything goes wrong, > I just reset back to the stage 4 and try again if worse comes to worse. > Once done, I copy the packages over to my main system and add -k to > emerge. It makes updates a lot faster and stable. Sometimes during KDE > updates, things can get out of sync and things stop working. Having > packages that take a long time to compile makes that worse. The qt > package, LOo, Firefox etc etc. You can be sure I'm going to do that > with this update. It's gonna take long enough to do the -k bit much > less the actual compile part. I seem to recall we have to do a emerge > -e world with this. o_O > > I hope that helps you pick the correct one. I been concerned about the > switch too. It's easy to mess up something. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I suggest it would be best to take heed of the devs hard work and read the instructions they have provided instead of winging it: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Toolchain/23.0_update_instructions
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