From: Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:12:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F5FD443.2030709@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120314001003.42683267@khamul.example.com>
Thank you very much Alan!
I keep the finger away of it. And continue running Gnome2. Not important
for me updating the wm to gnome3.
It's a developer machine. :-)
Tamer
Am 13.03.2012 23:10, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> Let's deal with your biggest mistake first. You are running a stable
> system (you have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" in make,conf) but you want to
> install gnome-3.
>
> Now that is highly unlikely to work for a very long time yet as gnome-3
> is considered nowhere near stable enough yet to be unmasked. Portage is
> going to want to unmask vast chunks of your system to meet the
> long deep list of dependencies for gnome-3 and this will cause you
> sever amounts of pain.
>
> Trust the folks on this list, over the years we have learned that a
> stable system (with maybe a few unmasked packages) is OK, an unstable
> system is also mostly OK (you just update lots of things often) but it
> doesn't break fantastically every other day.
>
> A system that is half stable, half unstable DOES break fantastically
> every other day. And this is what you are trying to do.
>
> You have many options, only two are actually realistic:
>
> 1. Stay stable, do not use gnome-3
> 2. Switch to unstable, do a full "emerge -e world", then emerge
> gnome-3. It will go easy and probably JustWork out the box.
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:33:56 +0100
> Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan!
>> you were right. It is masked! I figured out that "autounmask" is not
>> in portage, because of that I believe that this might not be the only
>> package that is masked....
>>
>>
>> tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pv =gnome-3.2.1
>>
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>
>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-wm/mutter-3.2.1" have been
>> masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
>> complete your request:
>> - x11-wm/mutter-3.2.2::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
>> - x11-wm/mutter-3.2.1-r1::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
>>
>> (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-3.2.1" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "=gnome-3.2.1" [argument])
>> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
>> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>>
>> tamer@office ~ $
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Am 12.03.2012 21:35, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>>> On your system "emerge gnome" wants to install gnome-2
>>>
>>> So either your tree is outdated (you must re-sync) or gnome-3 is
>>> still masked. The second option is more likely and there are two
>>> possibilities for that:
>>>
>>> You run a stable system (gnome-3 is still unstable), or
>>> you masked it for some reason.
>>>
>>> Run this and examine what output you get:
>>>
>>> emerge -pv =gnome-3.2.1
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:56:56 +0100
>>> Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Alan!
>>>> I thought more or less that I have to unmask packages, or making
>>>> any configurations to unlock the update to gnome3.
>>>>
>>>> If I run now:
>>>>
>>>> tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pav gnome
>>>>
>>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>>
>>>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>>>> [ebuild R ] gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1-r1 USE="cdr cups dvdr
>>>> ldap policykit -accessibility -mono" 0 kB
>>>>
>>>> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>>>> tamer@office ~ $
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I get one package to reinstall.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If I run "layman -a gnome" and re-execute the command:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I got this message:
>>>>
>>>> * If you enabled the GNOME overlay to get GNOME 3.2, please disable
>>>> * it now, since GNOME 3.2 is already in portage and unmasked.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> How do I install gnome 3.2, that is now in portage?!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Tamer
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Am 11.03.2012 17:43, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>>>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:01:41 +0100
>>>>> Tamer Higazi <th982a@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi people!
>>>>>> I want to upgrade gnome 2.32 to gnome 3.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> First question, is it now officially supported by the gentoo team
>>>>>> or should I keep my fingers away of it?!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-3.2-upgrade.xml
>>>>>>
>>>>>> doesn't tell me a lot how to accomplish this task. Is there any
>>>>>> official documentation telling me how to doit, unmasking, flags
>>>>>> etc....
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> for any advise I would thank you.
>>>>>
>>>>> What sort of information are you looking for?
>>>>>
>>>>> gnome-3 is marked unstable, so if you run ~x86 or ~amd64 just
>>>>>
>>>>> emerge -av gnome
>>>>>
>>>>> and deal with any breakage. This is generally how gentoo works for
>>>>> everything. What were you expecting in terms of documentation ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-13 23:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-11 16:01 [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?! Tamer Higazi
2012-03-11 16:43 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-12 12:56 ` Tamer Higazi
2012-03-12 13:04 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-12 14:04 ` Tamer Higazi
2012-03-12 14:44 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2012-03-12 15:06 ` David Abbott
2012-03-12 15:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-03-12 20:35 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 21:33 ` Tamer Higazi
2012-03-13 22:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-13 23:12 ` Tamer Higazi [this message]
2012-03-11 18:49 ` Canek Peláez Valdés
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