Re: [gentoo-user] xfce4 upgrade

[doug asherman <doug@musanon.com>]

Douglas Linford wrote:
> Good Day All,
> 
> I just upgraded xfce4 to 4.4, and the base emerge was successful, but
> when I try to emerge the xfce4-extras, I get the following output:
> 
> *************************************************************************************************
> 
> iDeq ~ # emerge -pv xfce4-extras
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [blocks B     ] xfce-extra/xfce4-windowlist (is blocking

<< lots of stuff about blocks and downgrades deleted >>

> [ebuild  N    ] xfce-base/xfce4-extras-4.2.3.2  0 kB
> 
> Total: 17 packages (6 downgrades, 11 new, 5 blocks), Size of downloads:
> 
> I unmerged the listed blocks, but I got a message that portage could not
> find xfce4-panel-4.4
> So...I could not upgrade.
> And what is with the downgrades?

It looks like your system wants to emerge xfce-extras-4.2.3.2 instead of
xfce-extras-4.4.0-r1. If you put the line:

xfce-base/xfce4-extras

in your /etc/portage/package.keywords file, that should do the trick as
far as unmasking xfce4-extras-4.4. However, you'll still need to put the
dependencies for xfce4-extras in the package.keywords file. As far as I
can tell, these are:

xfce-extra/xfce4-mount
xfce-extra/xfce4-dict
xfce-extra/xfce4-taskmanager
xfce-extra/xfce4-screenshooter
xfce-extra/xfce4-quicklauncher
xfce-extra/xfce4-xkb
xfce-extra/xfce4-datetime
xfce-extra/xfce4-notes
xfce-extra/xfce4-fsguard
xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload
xfce-extra/xfce4-netload
xfce-extra/xfce4-cpugraph
xfce-extra/xfce4-timer
xfce-extra/xfce4-clipman
xfce-extra/xfce4-weather

What kind of dependency issues you might run into with these, I don't
know; I haven't actually installed the packages.

Good luck. Let us know how it turns out.

Doug

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