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 1MdttL-0005PK-QC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:44:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A2226E0502; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.askja.de (mail.askja.de [83.137.103.136]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CF9FE0502 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 22:44:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from static-87-79-89-40.netcologne.de ([87.79.89.40] helo=zone.wonkology.org) by mail.askja.de with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1MdttJ-0006mh-SX for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:44:25 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (uid 1000) by zone.wonkology.org with local; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 02:13:29 +0200 id 0001047B.4A8C9529.00005EC5 From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 00:44:20 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.28-tuxonice-r3_3; KDE/4.2.4; i686; ; ) References: <200908192039.42647.wonko@wonkology.org> <4A8C74F6.10506@optushome.com.au> In-Reply-To: <4A8C74F6.10506@optushome.com.au> 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-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200908200044.20652.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: 9758e286-2765-443f-b812-648fe639a8f7 X-Archives-Hash: 5b036cb97d11cf6b6e260997478bc96f John H. Moe writes: > Alex Schuster wrote: > > Roy Wright writes: > >> 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated > > > > I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most) > > settings will be kept. I think it just _should_ work. Customizing all > > over again every time a new KDE arrives would be no good. > Well, I don't know about necessary, but on my box, when I tried to > update from kde-meta:4.2 to kde-meta:4.3, there were a few blockers that > wouldn't let it go through, so I ended up unmerging 4.2, then emerging > 4.3 (which took about 4-6 hours, but I have distcc set up between two > boxes, so that probably sped things up). However, I seem to remember > that the blockers were with PyQt, Python and eselect-python; I hadn't > thought about it, cause I'm still not THAT experienced with Linux in > general, and Gentoo in particular, but the Python update was a Big Deal, > so perhaps updating Python before the KDE upgrade would have been a good > idea. :-P Granted though, I didn't use sets, so it may be a bit > different for you. Yes, emerge -p @kde-4.3 shows now problems. Maybe it's because of using sets, or I already have resolved the blockers, as I already had trouble with PyQt and such. > Oh, and I didn't touch my .kde or .kde4 folders during this process, and > as far as I can tell, it's still using all of my customizations... This sounds good. Wonko