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There is an easy way to deal with this in Gentoo. Boot from usb or something, run mkfs.ext4 (or .whatever fs you use) on your / and /usr partitions, mount them,
by ordu 2y ago
There is an easy way to deal with this in Gentoo. Boot from usb or something, run mkfs.ext4 (or .whatever fs you use) on your / and /usr partitions, mount them, unpack stage3 on them, chroot into them and run `emerge $all-my-packages-that-where-installed-before-mkfs`.
You can install new copy of Gentoo instead of upgrading it incrementally.
- robin_reala 2y ago“easy”
- ordu 2y agoIt is easy. It is just a tl;dr version of "how to install gentoo". :)
- lnxg33k1 2y agoI hope I will get a day where I have the will to recompile everything in the next 14 years, I think I had the same install for the past 10 or so on the gentoo desktop. The only think I reinstalled recently has been the laptop to switch from arch to sid
- account42 2y agoWow you bother with a separate install (and different distro for you laptop). When I got a new laptop last year I just copied over my desktop install and adjusted things as needed. Setting everything up from scratch is too much work.
- seanhunter 2y agoThis doesn't take into account any binaries that are in users home directories or locally installed. So for example anything compiled as part of a python virtualenv for a developer or anything they built in rust using cargo etc. Yes there are ways to deal with those things, but it doesn't change the fact that this transition is a big deal.
- account42 2y agoIn theory. In practice there will be build failure, configation in /etc and sysmlinks managed outside the package manager (e.g. via eselect) that can affect builds and much more. Just reinstall is only simple right after you first installed the system.