Archive for July, 2009
Jumping into Branch 5
Posted by joostruis in sabayon linux on July 14, 2009
At this point of writing it feels like the branch is fairly in shape enough. I’ve added KDE 4.3 RC2 from kde-testing overlay to work towards the final KDE 4.3 release.
As we speak a migration tool is being written to handle certain things that must be done after you hop into branch 5. If you are a little dare devil and want to jump into branch 5 ( equo hop 5 ) you need to keep in mind these steps.
- Do I realise that I’m about to download 800 – 1000 packages and I have enough free disc space to survive that operation.
- It’s important, since its a binary tree, that you complete equo upgrade (or what we used to call equo world)
- I’m not sure when the migration tools will be implemented but since we jumped to Python 2.6 you need to check eselect python list and see if its set to this.
- You will most likely need to equo install gcc and run gcc-config and set it to the latest gcc version
- You need to run binutils-config to manauly select a profile.
- The lowest kernel is a 2.26.30 you need to check with eselect kernel if its set to it and maybe manualy add the entry in /boot/grub/grub.conf
- Right now there is no new artwork available in branch 5 so it will kinda look the same.
If none of above stop you from trying the new branch, well its there for you.