As I wrote in my previous post, lots of changes have happened, even though you might think we're too quiet. In fact, things roll over nicely as they should, even though the lack of time continues to plague me. I have promised I will merge all the changes from branch next and release an ISO at the same time, however I cannot keep that promise and I apologise. Producing an ISO image is a time consuming endeavour. It takes 3 hours to spin, followed by days of testing. If something goes wrong, I have to start from scratch.
I understand many of you would prefer not to go through a lengthy update, however, for the time being, I cannot dedicate a few days to produce a new release. Branch master is, as of this post, almost 3 months behind, and it falls even further behind each time I push updates into branch next. As mentioned above, pushing frequent updates is easy, producing a new release, not so much. At the same time, holding a branch behind with the hope I might get some time to produce a release, is unreasonable. As a result, I have decided to merge all the goodies from branch next, into branch master, aka Plasma 6, Lxqt 2.0, new system profile, and a new binary format.
The steps you need to follow are identical to those found in the previous post, but I will repeat them in here.
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.
Enjoy!
P.S.: These instructions are valid even for a fresh install using the latest ISO. The first system upgrade must be performed using the instructions above!!!