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 1MgP91-0003Na-PS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:31:00 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 544BFE0CD8; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f218.google.com (mail-ew0-f218.google.com [209.85.219.218]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C2AE0CD8 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:18:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ew0-f218.google.com with SMTP id 18so13025ewy.14 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:18:03 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.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=Lf/bZao7nd1yy77qxNg8VHaOd0EqYZegdHD4pOQyZno=; b=Z010xMmXM4WZxJ0LXhbaMT6+qo78yx6+SElD2FYa+hJwCdXj87p7eTPGBiBb39o+6L t1X9Y3zBHE/Gc3qZjKxzID3jGyvLHak4pryBE6vhwBBvr/d1qZm3LDU/HaTn3GTCt4nL wVim2tN8EdJD7Zj4VN+IZMVToIHOJf9pPkt6g= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=K/oQXha/zKUFop3Y7t65gNnK6fx8rL9Fl3b0zUD5bynVZxZaZrvyaIvOCp03dBvSzF f5W3t0LrNORAtchTcMjDyux2vD3SrD1PP0XSGqE/trunMvgSTo9cBBHOM/osyfz4LPx4 RuBiAWX2xaL0deCHhqpSb7ZY5pihXoIK+lhEk= Received: by 10.210.59.10 with SMTP id h10mr6980660eba.47.1251281883860; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:18:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm64729eya.27.2009.08.26.03.17.51 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:17:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:10:46 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <4A94E8C2.2040101@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: 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 Message-Id: <200908261210.46818.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 8244d60a-925f-4a0c-8096-8dfaea030e8f X-Archives-Hash: 514f28291558e1957d0749812cd6a136 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. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com