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 1OmmdW-00037H-Cz for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:53:22 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 97674E084F; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 75909E084F for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 11:53:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxh35 with SMTP id 35so2372087yxh.40 for ; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:53:01 -0700 (PDT) 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=1Jo3fcD6lmMbf0y5MvJGFzjPREREDnocpsWkw/lf9mI=; b=BLFP3obbqp17XiYMMm8RiyChlZpgHCJUWuVoWagN5SFovjraeyLp+Xj+4EQBWaM0lN HdMLAI0oWxsjkZ5R1xRnhv4/P3m/GWseXpygFI9OewVyDVZoSXKNEvoCW1tNUA06rqUB 2rohQ/296X9cynFhR9BzHjhu5h0Kp2CQJGSNg= 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=wN7Flmw3fliKef8F8+w0y/KKqeiY1rW3jLTBG4q4EHBU3sXe4aRfJUuBMxOVoW7g5x bTIJ8zbZVpmPEdVXAjBUeD2QPpKOehC5xCixUji0Ye85gPRQ3dYZfhdI2TdRsjSVGgCn 5I9IyV7xy1sqb8oRjtINyCENrLaLKFjM4/kXU= Received: by 10.101.201.9 with SMTP id d9mr2881943anq.263.1282391581091; Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:53:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (adsl-0-123-240.jan.bellsouth.net [65.0.123.240]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x33sm6494287ana.13.2010.08.21.04.52.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sat, 21 Aug 2010 04:53:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4C6FBE1A.4000406@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:52:58 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100801 Gentoo/2.0.6 SeaMonkey/2.0.6 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] --buildpkg and doing a dry run on a upgrade References: <4C6FB126.4020708@gmail.com> <201008211342.35140.wonko@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <201008211342.35140.wonko@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a41e52c0-19e8-4020-b3dc-ce24986221df X-Archives-Hash: 0e6e0bf973ac15545e65602c5b49bfd8 Alex Schuster wrote: > Dale writes: > > >> I'm wanting to install the latest KDE 4.5 which is in the kde overlay. >> I got everything unmasked, keyworded and ready to go. Since this is a >> large upgrade and will take some time to compile, I would like to just >> build the binaries then come back and install them when the compiling >> is all done. The emerge man page says this: >> >> --buildpkgonly (-B) >> Creates binary packages for all ebuilds processed without actually >> merging the packages. This comes with the caveat that all >> build-time dependencies must already be emerged on the system. >> >> The part that I have a question on is the dependencies. Will portage >> be able to build all the packages when the previous packages are not >> installed yet? My thinking says this won't work but looking for a >> second opinion from a more "seasoned" guru. >> > I'm no guru, but I'm very sure it won't work. > > You could do this on a second machine, or in a chroot, or in a virtual > machine, and then distribute the binary packages. Which would be quite > some additional work. > > I'm running KDe 4.5, and it works fine. That is, there are fewer new bugs > for me than were fixed. > > Wonko > > Well, I bit the bullet and hit Y. This is what portage told me: Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. root@smoker / # You're right. It ain't going to work. Now we know. Thinking about copying my install to a second drive and installing it there. I can do it in a chroot and have a fall back install in case it borks, pukes or has some other kind of failure. I might add, it puked yesterday. I had no GUI for a while. It even killed kdm. I had to unmerge some packages to get rid of blocks then revert back to the old stable KDE to get a GUI. Yea, the keyboard was working and this was not hal related. lol I just wanted to get that out of the way before things got out of hand. ;-) Dale :-) :-)