[gentoo-user] kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

[gentoo-user] kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,

since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it.
But there are 408 (!) blocked packages.

emerge --unmerge kde-meta
didn't do anything.

So, what's a feasible way to upgrade?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut.

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Helmut Jarausch

Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
RWTH - Aachen University
D 52056 Aachen, Germany

Re: [gentoo-user] kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:38:22 +0100 (CET), Helmut Jarausch wrote:

> since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it.
> But there are 408 (!) blocked packages.
> 
> emerge --unmerge kde-meta
> didn't do anything.
> 
> So, what's a feasible way to upgrade?

Use automunmask, as already mentioned at least once this week.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

When companies ship Styrofoam, what do they pack it in?

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[gentoo-user] Re: kde-4.2 - how to upgrade

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> since kde-4.2 seems be to unblocked now, I'd like to try it.
> But there are 408 (!) blocked packages.
> 
> emerge --unmerge kde-meta
> didn't do anything.

You need an "emerge -a --depclean" after unmerging all -meta packages. 
But usually this won't work either since most people have normal KDE 
packages in their world file too.

The way I did it was to use the qlist tool from the gentoo-utils 
package.  First I got a list of KDE packages:

   qlist -Iv | grep -- kde

This will return a lot of packages.  I then copy&pasted all relevant KDE 
4.1 packages into an "emerge -C" command.  Then at the end I did the 
"emerge -a --depclean" and removed any left overs.