Bug 88838

Summary:	upgrade profile with a single command like 'apt-get dist-upgrade'
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Tiago Freire <tiago.freire>
Component:	Eclasses	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	tools-portage
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tiago Freire 2005-04-12 05:29:15 UTC

instead of having a bunch of instructions in a page for users to switch profile (sometimes they have bugs, I still did not manage to upgrade my Athlon 64 machine to the 2005.0 profile), we could have a single portagre command to do the switch, like "portage --update-profile 2005.0".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.wait for a new release
2.hope that no special instructions exist
3.find the upgrade instrucions (with or without special steps) in the website
4.do the upgrade (if no bugs block your way)

Actual Results:  
manual upgrade 

Expected Results:  
portage --update-profile 2005.0 

note that it is an update-profile, not upgrade-profile, there may be sme 
wicked mind that may want to downgrade its profile. this may be supported or 
not.

Comment 1 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-12 05:51:14 UTC

This is against the philosophy of emerge. Emerge does not alter any configuration files and leaves that entirely up to the user. Seeing the /etc/make.profile link is a configuration file, it is out of emerge's domain. Your request will probably be handled by gui tools as they come about.