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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] poppler - how to update it elegantly?
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 12:29:21
Message-Id: 52496D88.9080201@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] poppler - how to update it elegantly? by Helmut Jarausch
1 On 30/09/2013 13:55, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi, my most hated package is poppler. Each time in the past and now
3 > again it's hard to upgrade.
4 >
5 > portage (2.2.7) cannot handle it, so I have to (manually) unmerge all
6 > packages depending on it and emerge them after
7 > the poppler upgrade again.
8 >
9 > Has anybody found a more elegant procedure?
10 >
11 > Many thanks,
12 > Helmut.
13 >
14
15
16 poppler packaging is a pita, but it's never broke anything for me (but
17 does cause lots and lots and lots of stuff to be rebuilt...)
18
19 Yesterday's update worked just fine:
20
21 $ genlop -t poppler
22 * app-text/poppler
23
24 Wed Sep 18 08:46:05 2013 >>> app-text/poppler-0.24.1
25 merge time: 33 seconds.
26
27 Sun Sep 29 12:31:08 2013 >>> app-text/poppler-0.24.2
28 merge time: 35 seconds.
29
30
31 What errors are you getting?
32 Any customizations to poppler on your system?
33 (i.e grep -r poppler /etc/portage)
34
35
36
37 --
38 Alan McKinnon
39 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] poppler - how to update it elegantly? Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>