Re: [gentoo-user] kde update

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

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On Monday 30 May 2011 17:45:17 Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
> Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
> A simple "emerge -uD world" gives:
> 
> [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.7.2-r1 [4.6.3-r1] USE="-jit%
> -private-headers%" [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 [4.6.3-r2]
> [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 ("<x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2" is
> blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.7.2, x11-libs/qt-svg-4.7.2,
[snip ...]

>     (and 13 more)
> 
> 
> All together 982 lines as above.
> Besides that, gentoo amd64 works fine on my box and I emerge everyday
> packages to upgrade, except those which are kde's. Questions:
> - what the hell is this mess, did I do something wrong ?

No, nothing wrong, new packages that the latest qt and kde4.6 want are being 
blocked by packages already installed.

> - have any of you got the same kind of troubles ?

Yes, I did on 3 different boxen.


> - is there a way to go back to an up to date clean install, I mean besides
> reinstalling from scratch or going for Ubuntu ? Reasons that make me go
> for gentoo 8 or 9 years ago:
> - excellent docs. (as of to-day, some docs need updating);
> - easyness of maintenance, no need for periodical reinstall (I'm not sure
> this time); - stable packages are renewed in time, not too soon, not too
> late; - portage works like a charm.
> Hope I can get some help

Don't panic!  What I did was to progressively uninstall the blockers and then 
run emerge -uaDv world.  Eventually there were no blockers, the latest qt was 
installed and then kde4.6.

Everything now is like a "clean new install" should be.

If you're running 2.2 portage there may be some automagic way of achieving 
this, but with portage-2.1.9.42 I had to do it manually.

HTH.
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Regards,
Mick

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