Re: [gentoo-amd64] KDE4.3 upgrade -- questions about wiki page

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Haney<mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
>>> I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.2.4 and I've been seeing the blocks
>>> that are keeping me from upgrading.  According to the wiki page I should:
>>>
>>>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned kde-base/* items in /var/lib/portage/world
>>>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned sets in /var/lib/portage/world_sets
>>>
>>> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world.  My question is,
>>> how do I fix that?  I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world
>>> directly.  Is there some other, better way?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> I'm not at a Gentoo machine right now, but in addition to the inputs
>> from Akos and Paul there is a Gentoo app (which unfortunately I don't
>> remember the name but is something obvious like auto-unblock, etc.)
>> that does auto-unblocking and adds lines to portage.unmask,
>> portage.keywords, etc. It puts comments around the lines it adds so
>> that it's easy to see what it did. sometimes you need to run it a
>> couple of times to get to a point where you'll get a clean install,
>> but it does work.
>>
>> Might be another option for you.
>>
>> hope this helps,
>> Mark
>
> autounmask
>
>
Thanks Paul!