Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 14:07:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Of course, all of this is terribly interesting and has absolutely > nothing to do with the OPs question :-) Making this a typical mailing list thread ;-) -- Neil Bothwick PC DOS Error #04: Out of disk space. Delete Windows? (Y)es (H)

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:06:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > My desktop machine at home is still on 2005.0 profile and yet, it > > is a fully up to date x86 system. If I were to make it a 2006.1 > > profile, it's very unlikely that anything

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Jesús Guerrero
El Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:06:05 +0200 Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > First, why do you want to downgrade from i686 to i586? Do you have an > original pentium chip and you specified i686 by mistake? There's no > other valid reason I can think of for such a downgrade. > Unless there i

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 13:12, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > But, if you insist, you can do this: > > > > 1. Change your CHOST in /etc/make.conf > > 2. Change the /etc/make.profile symplink to point to the profile of > > your choice in /

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006 13:06:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > My desktop machine at home is still on 2005.0 profile and yet, it is a > fully up to date x86 system. If I were to make it a 2006.1 profile, > it's very unlikely that anything would change at all. In this case, I expect there would be c

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:06, Alan McKinnon wrote: > But, if you insist, you can do this: > > 1. Change your CHOST in /etc/make.conf > 2. Change the /etc/make.profile symplink to point to the profile of your > choice in /usr/portage/profiles > 3. emerge -e system ; emerge -e world Whoa! Your

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:38, Christian Nygaard wrote: > If you have a Gentoo system with a specific release point for e.g. > 2006.0and you would like to live upgrade it so it confirms to a > 2006.1 profile is that possible? You appear to misunderstand what a profile is. It's nothing more tha

Re: [gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Bo Ørsted Andresen
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 11:38, Christian Nygaard wrote: > If you have a Gentoo system with a specific release point for e.g. > 2006.0and you would like to live upgrade it so it confirms to a 2006.1 > profile is that possible? You just change the profile. The differences in the profiles between

[gentoo-user] How do you make a gentoo system confirm to a release?

2006-12-19 Thread Christian Nygaard
If you have a Gentoo system with a specific release point for e.g. 2006.0and you would like to live upgrade it so it confirms to a 2006.1 profile is that possible? To be specific I would like if possible to have a live upgrade to stage3 but with using i586 compile instead of i686. I could rm -rf