Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-07 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote: Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ??? How easy to update

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-07 Thread Al Raq
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 03:02, Alan wrote: On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote: Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping

[gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread Al Raq
Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ??? How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6 kernel. ,gcc,

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 January 2004 19:13, Al Raq wrote: Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Al Raq wrote: Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to keep my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ??? How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread brettholcomb
by etc-update DO NOT run etc-update and let it do every update. Check the updates first to make sure it won't mess up some files. From: Al Raq [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2004/01/06 Tue PM 02:13:19 EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration