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 1Mdt8l-0002yf-9I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:56:19 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC8F7E03D8; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:56:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.188]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38EA2E03D8 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.166] ([59.154.26.81]) (authenticated sender johnmoe) by mail07.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n7JLu7I7014324 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:56:14 +1000 Message-ID: <4A8C74F6.10506@optushome.com.au> Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 07:56:06 +1000 From: "John H. Moe" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090815 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question References: <200908192039.42647.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <200908192039.42647.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1d5ed11e-635c-454f-9871-62eee750a814 X-Archives-Hash: 3c86f48de1ee75d54a2d81ee10d45836 Alex Schuster wrote: > Roy Wright writes: > > >> kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whooooop! >> > > I'm also happy, and I want to upgrade soon. I hope many of those little > annoyances I experience will be fixed. > > >> But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( >> > > Yeah. > > >> When I installed kde-4.2, I followed the advice of unmasking portage >> and using sets. Also followed the recommendation to use -kdeprefix. >> Further I removed kde-3.5 and added a mask on kdelibs-3.5 to help keep >> 3.5 off of the system. >> >> So for the kde-4.3 upgrade, it looks like this is what will be >> necessary: >> >> 1) grab the sets again from the kde-testing overlay and put them in / >> etc/portage/sets (assumption is to do a replace). >> > > I did that, too, but got errors from portage (Error during set creation: > Redefinition of set...). Looks like the sets are found in the kde-testing > overlay, so I removed them from /etc/portage/sets, and all was fine. Coool. > > >> 2) unmerge kde-4.2 using: emerge --unmerge @kde-4.2 >> > > Not really necessary I heard. > But: I am still using the dreaded kdeprefix use flag. It sounded like a good > idea to use it, and I would also like to have different minor KDE versions > alongside. Okay, it's hard to maintain, I understand it will be dropped. > Now, do I REALLY REALLY have to unmerge all @kde-4.2 first, remove the > kdeprefix use flag, and proceed to step 3? > > >> 3) merge kde-4.3 using: emerge -av @kde-4.3 >> > > Hopefully this runs through. If it takes a night, it's okay, but if it stops > in the middle, I have no KDE for a while. And I need much of the stuff in > there, like the wallet with its passwords. > > What about this: I update my system's backup (I'm using rdiff-backup), > chroot into the backup, sudo to my account, and issue startkde. Could I get > a running KDE 4.2? Then I would have time to install 4.3. > > >> 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated >> > > I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most) settings > will be kept. I think it just _should_ work. Customizing all over again > every time a new KDE arrives would be no good. > > Wonko > > > Well, I don't know about necessary, but on my box, when I tried to update from kde-meta:4.2 to kde-meta:4.3, there were a few blockers that wouldn't let it go through, so I ended up unmerging 4.2, then emerging 4.3 (which took about 4-6 hours, but I have distcc set up between two boxes, so that probably sped things up). However, I seem to remember that the blockers were with PyQt, Python and eselect-python; I hadn't thought about it, cause I'm still not THAT experienced with Linux in general, and Gentoo in particular, but the Python update was a Big Deal, so perhaps updating Python before the KDE upgrade would have been a good idea. :-P Granted though, I didn't use sets, so it may be a bit different for you. Oh, and I didn't touch my .kde or .kde4 folders during this process, and as far as I can tell, it's still using all of my customizations... --==**==-- John Moe