On Freitag, 22. August 2008, Anthony Metcalf wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > no. > > Why? > > > Easiest way: complete reinstall. > > What about re-building every single package, and re-installing it isn't > a complete -reinstall? > > I can understand that this wouldn't work without the re-boot to live cd > step, as you would end up with incompatible libraries/binaries, and with > a 32bit kernel trying to run 64bit apps and crap.....but this should > avoid all that, with minimal downtime.....
because it isn't done with simple rebuilding. You have to change the chost, you need to cross compile. At the end it is just FASTER to reinstall.
