I like to play around with new development. I have been running sabayon beta 4 for a few days now. Here is how to go from sabayon 3.5 or 3.5.1 to sabayon 4 beta.
Open the file /etc/entropy/repositories.conf
Find the line that says:
Branch|3.5
Change it to
Branch|4
Backup all of your configuration files in case something screws up really bad:
# cd /
# tar czfvp etc-3.5.tar.gz etc
Copy your xorg.conf file to your root folder or you will have troubles later:
# cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /root/
Next, update equo (from a console or shell):
# equo update
Next, check for world updates (you might want to be sitting down as there were about 988 files to download on mine):
# equo world -pretend
If you like what you see, update to world:
# equo world
This will install all of the beta 4 files. But, you won't be done just yet. There won't be a xorg.conf file which is needed to start a graphical display. Copy the previous xorg.conf back to the correct location:
# cp /root/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf
You can now either reboot the system or simply restart X using ctrl - alt - backspace command.
Some Problems:
Since you are working with the bleeding edge development version, you will have some troubles. One I can tell you right now is that sabayon 4 beta comes with flash 10. On my AMD64 installation, firefox often crashes whenever some flash animations or movies are displayed. I don't have a work around. You could manually install flash 9.x to fix this.
I don't like the new kde login screen, so I switched to gdm which is really sweet. If you want to do this, simply edit the file /etc/conf.d/xdm and change the display manager line from kdm to gdm.
Overall:
The beta 4 system is really responsive on my system, compared to a fully up to date 3.5.1 it is considerably faster. If I find any other bugs or crashes while using the new beta 4, I will update them here along with fixes If I have one.
Finally:
Don't complain to sabayon developers if your system doesn't work or there are bugs. You are in fact using a beta release so this should be expected. If you find a bug though, report it but don't expect a response or fix. You can also post a message here and maybe I could help you.
If you dont like the new system, change the repositories.conf line back to the original. Update equo and update world. Extract your backed up etc directory. Restart
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