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On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Haney<mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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>> I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.2.4 and I've been seeing the blocks |
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>> that are keeping me from upgrading. According to the wiki page I should: |
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>>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned kde-base/* items in /var/lib/portage/world |
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>>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned sets in /var/lib/portage/world_sets |
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>> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world. My question is, |
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>> how do I fix that? I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world |
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>> directly. Is there some other, better way? |
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>> -- |
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>> Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum |
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>> Mark Haney |
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> I'm not at a Gentoo machine right now, but in addition to the inputs |
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> from Akos and Paul there is a Gentoo app (which unfortunately I don't |
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> remember the name but is something obvious like auto-unblock, etc.) |
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> that does auto-unblocking and adds lines to portage.unmask, |
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> portage.keywords, etc. It puts comments around the lines it adds so |
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> that it's easy to see what it did. sometimes you need to run it a |
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> couple of times to get to a point where you'll get a clean install, |
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> but it does work. |
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> Might be another option for you. |
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> hope this helps, |
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> Mark |
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