Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Following the kde4.1 upgrade guide

["Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org>]

Duncan wrote:
> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@ercbroadband.org> posted
> 4906004B.4030707@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on  Mon, 27 Oct 2008
> 13:54:19 -0400:
> 
>> I'm finally to the point that I'm read yo move to KDE4.1.2 now, but I'm
>> missing something I think.
>>
>> Using the KDE4.1 guide, I try to unmerge the KDE4.1.1 packages using
>> sets (as the guide states to do if you're using the kdesvn-portage
>> overlay), but it doesn't work. I apparently don't have any sets when I
>> setup the overlay?
>>
>> I've upgraded portage so I know it's a version that supports sets, but
>> for some reason it's not working.
>>
>> Ideas?
> 
> Well, first off as all the kdesvn and earlier kde-4 packages were masked 
> and you had to unmask them for installation, it should be a simple matter 
> of deleting all those package.unmask entries you added to unmask them, 
> running emerge --update, and portage should take care of the details on 
> its own.  Of course, don't forget the --depclean and revdep-rebuild steps 
> afterward, cleaning up the loose ends. Given the flexibility of portage, 
> there are several other ways to do it, some of which are listed below, 
> but this might be the simplest, particularly since you should really do 
> it anyway, thus cleaning up your portage config after your testing.
> 


Duncan, as always you are indeed a help.  I do have a question, I 
removed the package.unmask entries, but I'm not seeing the kde4.1.2 
packages.  I don't run ~arch, however, so I'm assuming I"ll need to 
unmask the packages for 4.1.2 as per the documentation, correct?


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