On Tuesday 20 Dec 2016 11:17:54 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 09:59:44 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > /mnt/main is where my rescue system mounts the main system for backup.
> > Do I need to add --xattrs to the tar command?
> 
> I do, when it comes to creating a stage4 tarfile. Not sure if this is
> necessary.
> 
> Maybe that is used somewhere, or is it possible you miss something in the
> main system mount?

I'm sure the problem isn't in my backup script. It's always worked perfectly 
before. All the same, I have now added --xattrs to every tar command in it.

D'you want to know what else I've been doing all day? Go on, do you?

I'll tell you anyway.

To stand any chance of upgrading KDE apps to 16.12.0, I first evicted every 
package returned by eix -Cc dev-qt and eix -Cc kde-plasma, plus a few more 
individual packages that were also getting in the way. (The eix man page is 
helpful in showing how to extract just the cat/pkg from a list of package 
names. Full marks for ingenuity!)

Then I ran a -uaDvU world to install 300 "new" packages. Hours later, I had 
a load more @preserved-rebuild packages to install. I've attached the 
output, which shows that it wants to go back to the superseded versions. [0] 
shows what it thinks it can install, while [1] lists all the things that 
stop it doing anything

Still absolutely no go. Oddly enough, BGO has only a few 16.12.0 package 
bugs and they're all about single packages - nothing to indicate the system-
wide problems I'm having, so it looks as though I have a combination of 
packages that cause problems themselves.

I've now reverted to the good backup I made this morning. I shall have to 
consider whether to start building a new system from scratch, a bit at a 
time, until I find the culprit. It'd keep me occupied over Christmas, 
anyway.

[0]	wilco
[1]	blocks.etc

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Regards
Peter