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Duncan wrote: |
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> "Mark Haney" <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> posted |
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> 4906004B.4030707@××××××××××××.org, excerpted below, on Mon, 27 Oct 2008 |
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> 13:54:19 -0400: |
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>> I'm finally to the point that I'm read yo move to KDE4.1.2 now, but I'm |
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>> missing something I think. |
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>> Using the KDE4.1 guide, I try to unmerge the KDE4.1.1 packages using |
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>> sets (as the guide states to do if you're using the kdesvn-portage |
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>> overlay), but it doesn't work. I apparently don't have any sets when I |
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>> setup the overlay? |
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>> I've upgraded portage so I know it's a version that supports sets, but |
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>> for some reason it's not working. |
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>> Ideas? |
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> Well, first off as all the kdesvn and earlier kde-4 packages were masked |
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> and you had to unmask them for installation, it should be a simple matter |
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> of deleting all those package.unmask entries you added to unmask them, |
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> running emerge --update, and portage should take care of the details on |
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> its own. Of course, don't forget the --depclean and revdep-rebuild steps |
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> afterward, cleaning up the loose ends. Given the flexibility of portage, |
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> there are several other ways to do it, some of which are listed below, |
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> but this might be the simplest, particularly since you should really do |
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> it anyway, thus cleaning up your portage config after your testing. |
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Duncan, as always you are indeed a help. I do have a question, I |
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removed the package.unmask entries, but I'm not seeing the kde4.1.2 |
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packages. I don't run ~arch, however, so I'm assuming I"ll need to |
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unmask the packages for 4.1.2 as per the documentation, correct? |
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