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From: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems updating Qt from 4.8.6 to 4.8.7
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2015 18:44:36
Message-Id: 1436121859.9693.7.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Problems updating Qt from 4.8.6 to 4.8.7 by Sebastian Pipping
1 On Sun, 2015-07-05 at 20:25 +0200, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
2 > Hi there!
3 >
4 >
5 > I'm having trouble updating Qt:4 (dev-qt/qt*-4.8*:4) from 4.8.6 to 4.8.7.
6 > Looking at the ebuilds, they require some 4.8.7 versions to be installed
7 > already that in turn cannot be installed because other ebuilds require
8 > 4.8.6 while not yet upgraded.
9 >
10 > I am running the latest version of portage. Is there some trick I
11 > should know about or am I stuck with Qt 4.8.6 on that box forever? How
12 > did you update?
13
14 What I usually end up doing is listing my installed dev-qt/qt* ebuilds, and
15 updating all of them together explicitly:
16
17 emerge -1 qtcore:4 qtgui:4 qtsql:4 etc.
18
19 Alternatively, just try "emerge --update --deep world" - it probably should
20 work if you have a consistent, complete and updateable world set.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Problems updating Qt from 4.8.6 to 4.8.7 Sebastian Pipping <sping@g.o>