simple question regarding gentoo version

[josolanes]

i ran vidalinux before actually giving gentoo a shot (vidalinux was really easy to install and is gentoo-based). the version of vidalinux used gentoo 2004.X and i had to go through a few steps to get it to know what the new portage tree was....2005.0 (i think that's what i did). now there's a new version of gentoo...2005.1. do i have to do anything or is it taken care of automatically? do i only have to do this when there's a full version change...ie. 200X?

sorry for the simple question, i'm just somewhat curious and want to make sure everything's how it should be . thanks in advance!

[Cabhan]

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking...

Running

emerge --sync

will sync you to the current Portage tree. All updates are handled automatically; when it went from 2005.0 (what I installed at) to 2005.1, I didn't have to do anything.

Portage can also update itself through

emerge -NuD world

so you don't need to worry about that either.

I'm not entirely sure what your question is, so if that didn't answer it, can you explain again?

[josolanes]

I'm not entirely sure what you're asking...

Running

emerge --sync

will sync you to the current Portage tree. All updates are handled automatically; when it went from 2005.0 (what I installed at) to 2005.1, I didn't have to do anything.

Portage can also update itself through

emerge -NuD world

so you don't need to worry about that either.

I'm not entirely sure what your question is, so if that didn't answer it, can you explain again?

that might have answered the question

i just remembered running a few steps to get my profile updated from 2004.X to 2005.0 before...maybe it really wasn't a big deal (but seemed like it since i was new??). i did some searching and it seems that "source /etc/profile" may update the profile also . maybe that's what i was thinking of by "a few more steps" lol.

so, lets say there's a new profile, "2006.0" that would come out. would i have to do anything special to update from 2005.1 to 2006.0? i'm almost sure i did something extra (might have just been "env-update && source /etc/profile") when i changed from 2004.X to 2005.0.

oh well...if it's as easy as running "emerge --sync && emerge -uDN world" than that's great!


also, how would i check which profile i'm using? 2005.0, 2005.1,...?

[St. Joe]

so, lets say there's a new profile, "2006.0" that would come out. would i have to do anything special to update from 2005.1 to 2006.0?

Read this doc: Profile Updating Instructions.
There's always a doc.

[josolanes]

so, lets say there's a new profile, "2006.0" that would come out. would i have to do anything special to update from 2005.1 to 2006.0?

Read this doc: Profile Updating Instructions.
There's always a doc.

that's exactly what i was talking about when i said i needed to follow some steps to move from 2004.X to 2005.0 . thanks a lot!

that link also shows how to move from profile to profile

i didn't see it in the link, but how would i check to see what profile i'm currently using? sorry if it was in the link...i briefly scanned through it to see something about finding your current profile but didn't notice it

[St. Joe]

If it exists, what does your /etc/make.profile symlink point to?
That is your current profile.

If it doesn't exist then you can make one.
For example on an amd64 arch with 2005.0 profile:

# ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0 /etc/make.profile

[josolanes]

If it exists, what does your /etc/make.profile symlink point to?
That is your current profile.

If it doesn't exist then you can make one.
For example on an amd64 arch with 2005.0 profile:

# ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/amd64/2005.0 /etc/make.profile

thanks a lot for the info

to check where the symlink points to...would i just do "ls" then the symlink?

if i do that, it shows what's in the directory that it points to, but it's hard to guess where it actually points to. i was hoping for more of a "2005.1" type of display when i check it. i'm sure i did it wrong lol, that's why it doesn't give me the info i'm really looking for

[Cabhan]

 ls -ld /etc/make.profile

-l -- Long display (to show what the link points to)
-d -- Show the directory, not its contents

[josolanes]

 ls -ld /etc/make.profile

-l -- Long display (to show what the link points to)
-d -- Show the directory, not its contents

yep, that worked

i've never seen that added parts to "ls". i should have read through the manual some....i thought it would have been a completely different command to look for the directory it's linked to

thanks a lot!

[Cabhan]

:P.

A few useful ones, then:

ls -a     <-- Display all Files &#40;even hidden ones&#41;
ls -l     <-- Long display &#40;file sizes, permissions, owner, etc.&#41;
ls -lh    <-- Long display with file sizes in terms of KB, MB, and GB
ls -d     <-- Show directory, not contents

Anyway, glad we helped! And hell, I didn't even know about that profile thing: I'm now usin 2005.1 instead of 2005.0 .