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-0001QZ-RM 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 616D3E0907 for ; Sat, 29 Aug 2009 01:07:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qy0-f204.google.com (mail-qy0-f204.google.com [209.85.221.204]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A46F4E08CE for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:01:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: by qyk42 with SMTP id 42so219272qyk.10 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:01:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=PvOBz3Dd8+JpdW6ugWG+bCcdvf6U3dwA0l1KU+j027E=; b=qahxkVMpTHE+K8j1ECStk48WcfCwScNTw9He2/e38mz5NRILGc5avypSKOJ8ZFZEZs x19NzwBwHQvIAJCnnBmA6V85og5/Ro/0WPN4cNQwrTsqv7EA03S9W1QGe3rhYxdcVATv PJJ+vmOl1grHFgiq01JXm4Pl7QaFqUCooQNsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=mLOx6osVKCMra4C+KNLVlTi89c9emMPwulnAcTkwo2D2N2AWduYQfsICMIuwbJNqO4 gOys8fR6OOqXE1begxPO53jnX8AwnVSNeskBO2YE63XribKRUEn5fOORBx3ZqmYsKPrJ fWAhGX9V1gB+CDjxJPMzqPYaTABmfYRqLCcrk= 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 Received: by 10.150.36.5 with SMTP id j5mr9477912ybj.329.1251212462276; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:01:02 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0908250759s18e11bd1j27f539f734cf8178@mail.gmail.com> References: <4A93ED07.2040804@ercbroadband.org> <5bdc1c8b0908250755r45f0ee98w5371d1d0391785e9@mail.gmail.com> <58965d8a0908250759s18e11bd1j27f539f734cf8178@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 08:01:02 -0700 Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0908250801j9267df2j5f9d4ef54b578bc1@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page From: Mark Knecht To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 909c6abf-4bdb-4b63-ba38-17e1757cc657 X-Archives-Hash: 65e6127904a16935844c7fda619c06c3 On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Haney wro= te: >>> 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. =C2=A0According to the wiki page I = should: >>> >>>> # Check that you don=E2=80=99t have any 4.2 versioned kde-base/* items= in /var/lib/portage/world >>>> # Check that you don=E2=80=99t 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. =C2=A0My question = is, >>> how do I fix that? =C2=A0I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/wo= rld >>> directly. =C2=A0Is 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 > > Thanks Paul!