[gentoo-amd64] Migrating to ~amd64 revisitted.

2005-10-24 Thread Toby Fisher
Hi all. First, thanks to all those who responded to my query last week regarding migrating from amd64 to ~amd64. Well, it all went to plan, well nearly, I managed to trash /var (we won't go into how that happened, suffice to say it won't happen again). This in one sense made it easier becaus

[gentoo-amd64] Upgrading from amd64 to ~amd64.

2005-10-17 Thread Toby Fisher
Hi all, The subject says it all. I'm currently running with amd64 as my arch, but I would like to upgrade to ~amd64. How straightforward is this to do on a running system? Is it just a case of changing to an arch of ~amd64 and doing the upgrade? I'll bet it isn't which is why I'm asking he