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 1NP1Bj-0000Ea-1P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:02:11 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BEDFE071E for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:02:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bw0-f215.google.com (mail-bw0-f215.google.com [209.85.218.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 76B5AE0897 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 20:35:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz7 with SMTP id 7so6938089bwz.26 for ; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:35:22 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=thqP7KkywTPnlJyEch5RX0kl1j0r5xm8dg2SlryLm2Q=; b=H2arM2MqEf12XpeecHkIgfLo/iur06HxP3n6X8RcavwLMDCRevAMfoxTYM3PX0yjxF /HjmcTD/yaf2GW94czMbq+tXo54pykOWUuWQaJPRMK6mrGf5XdGq1FflJ+QSXzekeIgZ nTuwUTiwBWBfE5q9Xm4iIhHGuFdH7og8qHncM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=kiKrcGG65l2mHZKF18YdzxRtE0/CG7Pbx+DDEe8uMKQR/aLsp4Kyp+SCtE9DSvEZTB qNja18ZXlHQFGmCI/nS2tGuM0TnaDbE9A2YOTeZglf5GiEf5DlgrcXF1F0CS+nEq0wd7 JOBV/GBhwWcIGyvOysrw6ENEkjD29lrjK0wXM= Received: by 10.204.34.201 with SMTP id m9mr8470938bkd.114.1261946122737; Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:35:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.101? (net-93-147-120-122.t2.dsl.vodafone.it [93.147.120.122]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 13sm3180420bwz.10.2009.12.27.12.35.21 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:35:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B37D469.10100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 21:40:57 +0000 From: bn User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (X11/20091224) 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] [SOLVED] The Great Macbook Update 3: Qt-4.5.1 to Qt-4.5.3 blocks hell References: <4B36803C.7090501@gmail.com> <200912270014.17745.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4B37593B.2020301@gmail.com> <20091227181148.63129e27@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20091227181148.63129e27@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 220889b6-8299-4893-8dde-f5b87594a337 X-Archives-Hash: 651cef388b739e2bcf65a9f7bc221503 Neil Bothwick ha scritto: > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:55:23 +0000, bn wrote: > >> ...I would like to update the thing piece-by-piece, to troubleshoot >> better whatever happens. > Start with a system update, then emerge --oneshot individual, > non-QT, packages to reduce the number of packages in the big emerge. > >>> If not, you can either >>> unmask portage, emerge portage and try again, or if you don't like >>> that approach, you must do it the older, longer way: >> I could do it, if I have some safety option that allows me to downgrade >> portage later, in case I find problems. I am quite conservative with >> this system (it's a machine I use for day-to-day work) and I wouldn't >> like to have it borked. > > Install and run demerge, then quickpkg your existing installed packages. > Demerge lets you roll back to any point at which you saved its config. I solved the block by unmerging and re-merging the qt's and then re-emerging all of KDE (for other qt software, I have to find it). Thanks a lot for your tips -didn't know of demerge, and I will for sure install it for the future. m.