[gentoo-user] system update

[gentoo-user] system update

[Qv6]

	
Folks,

I'm trying to update my system with this command:
 
	emerge world -Dup

and got this type of output:

	<snip>
	...
	[ebuild  NS   ] kde-base/kdebase-3.4.0  
	[ebuild  NS   ] kde-base/kdeartwork-3.4.0  
	[ebuild  NS   ] kde-base/kdegames-3.4.0  
	...
	<snip>

I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 
on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old 
version still installed.

TIA,

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Re: [gentoo-user] system update

[Edward Catmur]

On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote:
> I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 
> on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old 
> version still installed.

Update kde as usual, then 

# emerge -av --depclean

Make sure that portage doesn't offer to remove packages you want to keep
installed! Also a good idea to run revdep-rebuild afterwards.

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Re: [gentoo-user] system update

[Mariusz Pękala]

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On 2005-07-15 00:46:45 +0100 (Fri, Jul), Edward Catmur wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote:
> > I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3 and 3.4 
> > on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not have the old 
> > version still installed.
> 
> Update kde as usual, then 
> 
> # emerge -av --depclean
> 
> Make sure that portage doesn't offer to remove packages you want to keep
> installed! Also a good idea to run revdep-rebuild afterwards.

As this version of kde is slotted I believe that after your compilation
finishes, and you find the new KDE in working state, you should:

emerge prune kde
emerge -va prune arts

and then run emerge -av --depclean

After depclean there will be a few leftovers from kde if I recall well.
You may find them looking at /usr/kde/3.3/ and finding packages that own
files left there.

qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.3/some-file
emerge -va prune the-package-found-if-it-is-part-of-kde

Some files will not belong to any package, you may delete them, some
packages will have to be rebuild to use the new KDE version and leave
the old -  dev-db/knoda in my case...

Surely you may cook a nice script that will find and clear the KDE
leftovers in more hackish way, but it was very hot the day I was doing
this and my brain cooling system was not working properly... :-)

Remember to run revdep-rebuild -p after you remove some packages. It may
help you to find ones that need to be unmerged, and it is anyway a good
habit to run it.

HTH.

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Re: [gentoo-user] system update

[Qv6]

Thanks

On Friday 15 July 2005 03:08 am, Mariusz Pękala wrote:
> On 2005-07-15 00:46:45 +0100 (Fri, Jul), Edward Catmur wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 17:58 -0500, Qv6 wrote:
> > > I am currently running kde-3.3, and do not want to have both 3.3
> > > and 3.4 on the box. How can I update kde or any other app and not
> > > have the old version still installed.
> >
> > Update kde as usual, then
> >
> > # emerge -av --depclean
> >
> > Make sure that portage doesn't offer to remove packages you want to
> > keep installed! Also a good idea to run revdep-rebuild afterwards.
>
> As this version of kde is slotted I believe that after your
> compilation finishes, and you find the new KDE in working state, you
> should:
>
> emerge prune kde
> emerge -va prune arts
>
> and then run emerge -av --depclean
>
> After depclean there will be a few leftovers from kde if I recall
> well. You may find them looking at /usr/kde/3.3/ and finding packages
> that own files left there.
>
> qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.3/some-file
> emerge -va prune the-package-found-if-it-is-part-of-kde
>
> Some files will not belong to any package, you may delete them, some
> packages will have to be rebuild to use the new KDE version and leave
> the old -  dev-db/knoda in my case...
>
> Surely you may cook a nice script that will find and clear the KDE
> leftovers in more hackish way, but it was very hot the day I was
> doing this and my brain cooling system was not working properly...
> :-)
>
> Remember to run revdep-rebuild -p after you remove some packages. It
> may help you to find ones that need to be unmerged, and it is anyway
> a good habit to run it.
>
> HTH.

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Re: [gentoo-user] system update

[Antonino Sabetta]

> qpkg -f /usr/kde/3.3/some-file
> emerge -va prune the-package-found-if-it-is-part-of-kde

Thanks for this very useful hint! I have managed to free a lot
of precious disk space!!

I did it in a semi-automated way:

# emerge -p prune > prune-list.txt

then I edited the file, leaving only the rows with packages
I really wanted to prune (for instance I wouldn't prune old
kernels)

# vi prune-list.txt

and then:

for i in `cat prune-list.txt`; do emerge -v prune $i ; done

Cheers,
   AS
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