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 1MgPAZ-0004qX-7K for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:35 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id D296EE09E6; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 331FEE0C67; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:23:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.7.73]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03A74E0C67 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:23:31 +0000 (UTC) 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 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: INLINE Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=us-ascii Received: from ironport-out-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.40]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0KOZ001C28R63IF0@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:23:30 +0200 (CEST) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.44,278,1249250400"; d="scan'208";a="23712234" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by ironport-in-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:23:30 +0200 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.8+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id n7Q9NUoj014535 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:23:30 +0200 (CEST) Received: by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix, from userid 230) id 290104AB; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:23:33 +0200 (CEST) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:23:32 +0200 (CEST) From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading ~x68 kde-4.2 to kde-4.3 question To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-reply-to: <4A94E8C2.2040101@gmail.com> Message-id: References: <200908162112.38200.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <200908162126.35966.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <4A94E8C2.2040101@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: c5c56ca1-ca84-47f4-bc66-fb81f1c1402c X-Archives-Hash: 1e1d5fba919e66b8778d4d5d3b2ef6e9 On 26 Aug, Dale wrote: > Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> On 16 Aug, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >> >>> Am Sonntag 16 August 2009 21:12:30 schrieb Dirk Heinrichs: >>> >>> >>>> 2) No need to unmerge anything (except one or two blockers). >>>> >>> However, you can unmerge 4.2.x, if you like to. >>> >>> >> >> How to do that in a simple way? >> >> Unfortunately, >> emerge --unmerge kde-base/kde-meta:4.2 >> only unmerges the meta package itself. >> >> Thanks for a hint ( I'm afraid of any kde updates >> since they always have created more headaches than any >> other package or set of packages ) >> >> > > Not tested but should work. Use the -p option to make sure. > > Unmerge kde-meta:4.2 > emerge --depclean -p > > If that looks good, remove the -p. It should only remove kde:4.2 and > what depends on it. If you wait a while, I may be about to do this. > I'm doing the same thing as you. This DSL is soooooo cool. :-) > I have difficulties doing so. 'emerge --depclean' requires a recent emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world which tries to update kde, as well. I'm just trying to mask all kde-base packages, then doing emerge --update --newuse --deep @system @world Still, quite tedious. Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany