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 1S7auM-0003Cg-QT for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:13:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 445B0E0D2E; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:13:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08055E0870 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 23:12:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkwj4 with SMTP id j4so1006743bkw.40 for ; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=Ajfy6IeB4JcAUz1Qqmbj/iycVRX/+9junkO2BPIJRwo=; b=OopnacXqIe69sA1rDdU28Ky5tM2ndkUhH0AduOU46b1/DddyADi+USMytDsOrPFzfF tzCW0IYVtCPJKedAUMip6OpgcmcYDENbjW1ZKHJ/UUBlJOMtuokTzONp9k2UZbwOKy6V 568VI4bL+m1l6If80BrGGF8tchEli2mNyz6veImiwEgYhf1Ycq++9aVCXtPhZmUPbuPC BfJUsCSeowS5Xe+2+YmoHle9toK4zS4FgkolGJs1hAc8UBsOgjlwhMTLC/0+DZTHcugQ h5iRTOAt+5VsUKqMK9/0iA5qrPbqar/gIiIcIeUiC1xafKSU5FbNXVDNNwJGmCpG8tcp 5gJQ== Received: by 10.204.129.8 with SMTP id m8mr128992bks.69.1331680326128; Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [85.182.221.47] (e182221047.adsl.alicedsl.de. [85.182.221.47]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f5sm4260822bke.9.2012.03.13.16.12.04 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 13 Mar 2012 16:12:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4F5FD443.2030709@googlemail.com> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:12:03 +0100 From: Tamer Higazi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120305 Thunderbird/10.0.1 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] how updating to gnome3 ?! References: <4F5CCC65.3050204@googlemail.com> <20120311184321.588afc5c@khamul.example.com> <4F5DF298.9020002@googlemail.com> <20120312223538.3fc4420b@khamul.example.com> <4F5FBD44.9040808@googlemail.com> <20120314001003.42683267@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120314001003.42683267@khamul.example.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 9b4a028f-7f44-4ba0-8d4c-439b33918214 X-Archives-Hash: 88aa1cdc071ad9db576a7fab7f302e0e 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 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 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 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 ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >