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Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page
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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> wrot=
e:
>> 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=92t have any 4.2 versioned kde-base/* items in /va=
r/lib/portage/world
>>> # Check that you don=92t have any 4.2 versioned sets in /var/lib/portag=
e/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?
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum
>>
>> Mark Haney
>> Sr. Systems Administrator
>> ERC Broadband
>> (828) 350-2415
>>
>>
>
> 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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