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 1McnMC-0002H4-5M for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:33:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0FE09E04AE; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:33:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ey-out-1920.google.com (ey-out-1920.google.com [74.125.78.148]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9ACFE04AE for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:33:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ey-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so559432eyb.10 for ; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:33:38 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=qUllKpoc3sl2zmyxmLvA92933Xf1XiMDS09jA0zo4ic=; b=NsX8AFjbuQmX4IHK2imvJAaHjln82+TVxfLDU5B4Fz0eu3v6aJSChNKrqPcgMII/NZ a885kTv22Q87Ld6hjUKHs4MPwoiB7onbcvhsBJcLlu1d9L5562U9IObER3KtSov964Dr 5tfL93OrKfhASDDrFzxSleUtssfz7g9t/xY5I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=OCbogQeRp6vng8x/Gbl3Z4WishuUVeMveQVft8TYX04CpdYpss6Fx6TJ7d3ozMp2GH tHRjgvNqK2pVCN3dQ77VWwMT2wctwYPke02ICS4iFq4uJBfTzP/e3kEoZ4e/qnPPB2aj hTevN8SN2cFkEecg4IhAiWG2LUQ4EGcxI0A3U= Received: by 10.216.91.10 with SMTP id g10mr913802wef.71.1250458418217; Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:33:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g11sm2109140gve.29.2009.08.16.14.33.37 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 16 Aug 2009 14:33:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 23:33:33 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30.4r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <200908162309.41747.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <200908162318.40770.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200908162318.40770.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908162333.33798.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 73a42afa-99e9-44c2-af43-8080418fc486 X-Archives-Hash: b85739f1cc66e692851c3786902bbd78 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.