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

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:23:32 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 26 Aug, Dale wrote:
> > Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> >>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs:
> >>>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers).
> >>>
> >>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to.
> >>
> >> How to do that in a simple way?
> >>
> >> Unfortunately,
> >> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2
> >> only unmerges the meta package itself.
> >>
> >> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates
> >> since they always have created more headaches than any
> >> other package or set of packages )
> >
> > Not tested but should work.  Use the -p option to make sure.
> >
> > Unmerge kde-meta:4.2
> > emerge --depclean -p
> >
> > If that looks good, remove the -p.  It should only remove kde:4.2 and
> > what depends on it.  If you wait a while, I may be about to do this.
> > I'm doing the same thing as you.  This DSL is soooooo cool.  :-)
>
> I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent
> emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world
> which tries to update kde, as well.
> I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge
> --update --newuse --deep @system @world
>
> Still, quite tedious.
> Helmut.

Run emerge -avuND world and unmerge the blockers, then emerge -avuND world and 
let portage take care of the updates.

KDE-4.3 introduced some new packages and moved others around. Portage does not 
know how to deal with this.

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