From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Mh7aA-0001Ss-Gu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:57:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4E66CE08FE for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-vw0-f198.google.com (mail-vw0-f198.google.com [209.85.212.198]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44D6BE08FB for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:59:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws36 with SMTP id 36so2868442vws.10 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:59:42 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:sender:received:in-reply-to :references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=8XJY2hny+NaLQulL/ArYrTA3jfI3d7YyZ+NcbaEKhv8=; b=KTJGEsEz9d50C7TFAyUh5TAxAbkPQwzv1hHYTGefWuBDKvu6YqK2QyOW1RoCqS6nNA CNxjkPla63CxbkhqcMFYjaR9dNP9QccZLyI2YdZX+Ch+EOqQGJtaDe+AXjcvlvAc1Gyo GM8ndDRcN8BopV6cqTnOOUbP8XCIpABEFBjWk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=QFtA8nJb3PH4RqF+Cfb5C0F7zI2ZPRQ0/rvb51GTxcFntGjGgTNao/wIFATGBEWKAI ih966vHbOgXdSM56+La1c5OLsGRs+22+diYHCTFDWIRQQjcy99XiOK+1GhkXp4UUCP6k pSF9g8NeD4SwP6bXk2RPNXKwXThExqCIh7VVY= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.150.16.2 with SMTP id 2mr9431019ybp.251.1251212382663; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 07:59:42 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0908250755r45f0ee98w5371d1d0391785e9@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A93ED07.2040804@ercbroadband.org> <5bdc1c8b0908250755r45f0ee98w5371d1d0391785e9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 09:59:42 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5e9fec0a36aeb4cd Message-ID: <58965d8a0908250759s18e11bd1j27f539f734cf8178@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page From: Paul Hartman To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 8908e67e-242b-48d6-9b3a-8fdf0f61b168 X-Archives-Hash: 40b032db479724af264136697a177d98 On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Haney 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 autounmask