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J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote : |
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> On Sunday, December 18, 2016 03:11:58 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > Peter Humphrey peter@××××××××××××.uk> |
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> wrote : |
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> > > This morning I ran my usual daily update and was presented with a long |
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> > > list of kde-app packages, including KMail-2. The only problem was four |
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> > > blocks that portage couldn't sort out on its own, so I evicted the |
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> > > existing versions with emerge -C and continued. |
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> > > Then kleopatra failed to build, as in bug 602924. The fix there worked |
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> (I |
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> > > should call it an evasion really) and kleopatra built ok. |
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> > I should have done some more checking before writing. The fix was to |
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> emerge |
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> > -C kde-apps/gpgmepp. I don't know whether you can do that before starting |
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> > the upgrade, but it's worth a try. It might save a lot of work. |
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> > At any rate, there's no sign of gpgmepp being pulled back in with the new |
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> > 16.12.0 versions of kde-apps packages, now that the old versions have |
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> gone. |
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> More important, how is the latest kmail behaving? |
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It isn't. |
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I finished the emerge -e world, then @preserved-rebuild presented me with a whole lot of packages, resulting in the same appalling mess as before: incompatible versions being required of numerous packages. I've never had @preserved-rebuild follow an -e world before. |
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I've reverted to a week-old system backup, but now when I invoke KMail I get a dialogue box saying "This will start the program kmail -qwindowtitle %c %u. If you do not trust this program, click Cancel". What? Of course I trust it, so I click Continue, and I get "Unable to make the service KMail executable, aborting execution" |
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What could possible go wrong with a simple offline tarring of files to USB disk and back again? I know, I know... |
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Has no-one else tried this upgrade? |
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Regards, |
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Peter. |