First of all, I would like to apologise for this long overdue post. Yes, we're still alive and kicking, and that won't change for a long time. I may be the only maintainer, but I'm fully dedicated to the project as I have been for the past 8 years. Unfortunately, sometimes life gets in the way, and things can end up being delayed. Like the migration to Plasma 6, or the upgrade to LXQT 2.0, or the migration to the new profile 23.0 now that the old profile 17.1 is deprecated, or the change to the new modern gpkg binary format from the good old, likely to be deprecated at one point, xpak binary format. But the wait is finally over, at least for those of you on branch next (testing).
Here's how to get the latest goodies :
sisyphus autoclean
sisyphus update
eselect profile set default/linux/amd64/23.0/split-usr/hardened
sisyphus upgrade -e
This will take a while, depending on your connection and ssd speeds. Every single installed package will be either upgraded to the latest version, or reinstalled, effectively replacing everything. This is necesarry due to the Profile 23.0 migration.
Once completed, don't forget to run :
sisyphus autoremove
This will clean up the system from orphaned packages and unneeded dependencies.
Once completed, check your system for alien packages, aka packages which don't exist as binaries in Redcore Linux' repositories, but you explicitly installed using sisyphus' --ebuild option, and reinstall them :
sisyphus install --ebuild --oneshot $(sisyphus search "" -f alien -q | awk '{print $1}'|grep \/)
You can now reboot your system and enjoy the latest goodies.
A fresh ISO image containing all the changes will be released in the following days, which is when I will merge everything into branch master (stable). At that point you will have two options, either reinstall using the fresh ISO image, or perform the upgrade using the instructions above.
Enjoy!
P.S.: Once you upgraded, do not switch the branch until the fresh ISO image is released. At this point in time, the two branches are incompatible.