Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Sonntag 16 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Sunday 16 August 2009 23:09:41 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Sonntag 16 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > On Sunday 16 August 2009 21:46:02 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > On Sonntag 16 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 16 August 2009 21:12:30 Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > > > > > Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:02:50 schrieb Roy Wright:
> > > > > > > So for the kde-4.3 upgrade, it looks like this is what will be
> > > > > > > necessary:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > 1) grab the sets again from the kde-testing overlay and put
> > > > > > > them in / etc/portage/sets (assumption is to do a replace). 2)
> > > > > > > unmerge kde-4.2 using: emerge --unmerge @kde-4.2
> > > > > > > 3) merge kde-4.3 using: emerge -av @kde-4.3
> > > > > > > 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Am I on the right track?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > No.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > 1) They're in portage.
> > > > >
> > > > > He's asking about the set files, not the ebuilds.
> > > >
> > > > and you don't copy the set files.
> > >
> > > Which set files does one not copy, and why?
> >
> > you don't copy any set files because there is no reason to do so?
>
> And if the changes between kde-4.2 and kde-4.3 DO require changes to the
> set files to build everything, then what should one do? Not copy the files
> and live with the omission/breakage?
>
> Set files do not ship with a --sync, the user must either get them from
> somewhere or create them himself. And additions to 4.3 are not present in
> 4.2, so I don't understand your position. Seems to me that copying working
> set files from somewhere is a requirement in this case, especially if the
> user uses versioned set files.

you install kde-testing. Suddenly you have all the set files needed. you have 
all the unmask files needed. You have all keyword files needed.

And the overlay is not that big.