On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Francesco Riosa <viv...@gmail.com> wrote: > To be able to upgrade a gentoo installation as old as five years is > interesting and valuable but require an effort that has yet to be > made.
I suspect it shouldn't be difficult IF you have access to a binary package respository for the system set. Then you can do an emerge -K system and get all your core packages updated. In theory you should be able to install a gentoo stage3 in a chroot and do a quickpkg @system to generate such a repository. I'm open to comments as to why this wouldn't work, but it would seem to be the easiest solution to me. Of course, this won't get you whatever CFLAGS/USE settings you prefer - but once you have a working updated system set you could always do an emerge -e system to rebuild them with your own settings. Rich
