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 1RKj1g-0000d6-SG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:59:09 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7A88321C035 for ; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 03:59:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33F39E0A4A for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:12:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MfydH-0002sO-A4 for gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:12:27 +0200 Received: from ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net ([68.231.21.207]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:12:27 +0200 Received: from 1i5t5.duncan by ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:12:27 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org From: Duncan <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net> Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <4A93ED07.2040804@ercbroadband.org> <4A93F5B1.1050203@szalkai.net> 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: ip68-231-21-207.ph.ph.cox.net User-Agent: Pan/0.133 (House of Butterflies) Sender: news Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 49f45443-0774-4c67-8588-99d822f4e80e X-Archives-Hash: 8fe805afbc25c14e398ef9c2a1755438 Akos Szalkai posted on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 16:31:13 +0200 as excerpted: >> 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? >> =20 >> =20 > Don't be nervous about it, I've been doing it for a long time. :) Make > a backup copy before though, just to be sure. >=20 > And don't remove all KDE stuff from world, just the 4.2 versioned ones > (like kde-base/kde-meta:4.2). >=20 > Actually, I did not know there was a wiki page about it, so after > meeting the blocks, I just removed all KDE-4.2 packages and installed > kde-meta:4.3. Editing the world and indeed world_sets file, really isn't a big deal,=20 especially for deleting, as long as you delete the entire line. Adding gets a bit more complicated, but even that isn't too bad, as long=20 as you're careful to get the full package category and name correct, and=20 append the :slot info if necessary. However, while I do still hand-edit=20 the (much smaller) world_sets file, I haven't hand-edited the world file=20 in ages, preferring to let portage do it with emerge -C to unmerge for=20 removing lines. For adding lines, same thing, only since my emerge=20 scripts add --oneshot by default (so I never have to worry about dirtying= =20 my world files), I do a remerge with --noreplace (and without -1) to=20 actually add packages to the world file if I want them there. That=20 doesn't remerge the package due to the --noreplace, just asks me if I=20 want to add the package to the world file, which I do, at that point. Actually, my script invocation for the add is eaa , for emerge --ask= =20 . --=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