From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kuxn2-0005rk-8O for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:57 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5D9ADE0423; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D54E0423 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Kuxmt-0002ni-EC for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:47 +0000 Received: from ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.230.99.190]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:47 +0000 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:47 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Following the kde4.1 upgrade guide Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 23:15:39 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4906004B.4030707@ercbroadband.org> <49071FA1.9050202@ercbroadband.org> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: ip68-230-99-190.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 836b406b-3bcb-4347-ad52-be00d051f6ba X-Archives-Hash: 0a6a2dd435b36410a120d3d09deac0ad "Mark Haney" posted 49071FA1.9050202@ercbroadband.org, excerpted below, on Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:20:17 -0400: > 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? Yes. FWIW, I run FEATURES=3Dbuildpkg so I always have binpkgs for what's=20 installed, but otherwise I'd consider quickpkging the existing KDE before= =20 you upgrade, just in case something doesn't work on the upgrade. Then=20 I'd unmerge the existing kde4, so it didn't screw anything up going to=20 the new version. BTW, if you are still running kde3 as well, I strongly recommend=20 USE=3Dkdeprefix. Unfortunately there's a ways to go in getting the=20 unprefixed kde4 to stay out of the way of kde3. People are having=20 problems with kde3 apps because the config search path is the normal dirs= =20 (/usr/share/config and friends) before the prefix dirs=20 (/usr/kde/3.5/share/config and friends), and if kde4 is installed without= =20 kdeprefix, it installs to the normal dirs, screwing up the config for=20 kde3 packages. This system config problem is quite apart from the user=20 config issues, which are more or less solved at this point, provided you=20 follow instructions (or were using separate user accounts for kde3 and=20 kde4, as recommended way earlier). --=20 Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman