Upgrading to Gentoo 2006.1

Gentoo is now in it’s 2006.1 release as of today, and I came across this while trying to update my profile without syncing and emerge the latest portage first;

* Warning, the Surgeon General has determined that using profiles before
* they have been released can cause a multitude of medical problems,
* including, but not limited to:

* Nausea, diarrhea, intestinal blockage, mental defects, anal leakage,
* erectile disfunction, blindness, and death
* Use of this profile should be undertaken solely at your own risk!

Who says geeks doesn’t have sense of humors?

Anyway, upgrading to this profile is fairly simple;

# rm /etc/make.profile
# ln -s /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2006.1/ /etc/make.profile
# emerge --sync
# emerge --update --newuse --deep world

And alternatively I run this in another terminal, which would speedup the whole process;

# emerge --update --newuse --deep world --fetchonly