Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Haney<mhaney@ercbroadband.org> wrote:
>> I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.2.4 and I've been seeing the blocks
>> that are keeping me from upgrading.  According to the wiki page I should:
>>
>>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned kde-base/* items in /var/lib/portage/world
>>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned sets in /var/lib/portage/world_sets
>>
>> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world.  My question is,
>> how do I fix that?  I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world
>> directly.  Is there some other, better way?
>>
>>
>>
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>>
>> Mark Haney
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>>
>>
>
> I'm not at a Gentoo machine right now, but in addition to the inputs
> from Akos and Paul there is a Gentoo app (which unfortunately I don't
> remember the name but is something obvious like auto-unblock, etc.)
> that does auto-unblocking and adds lines to portage.unmask,
> portage.keywords, etc. It puts comments around the lines it adds so
> that it's easy to see what it did. sometimes you need to run it a
> couple of times to get to a point where you'll get a clean install,
> but it does work.
>
> Might be another option for you.
>
> hope this helps,
> Mark

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