Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)???
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:46:56
Message-Id: 201002101946.13021.volkerarmin@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Qt3 deprecated, but Qt4 still not x86 (only ~x86)??? by Mark Knecht
1 On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Mark Knecht wrote:
2 > On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 > > On Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:59:16 +0000, Stroller wrote:
4 > >> The message posted to Gentoo-dev suggests that Qt3 is going away right
5 > >> about NOW, but this doesn't seem to add up to what I'm seeing.
6 > >
7 > > The message says it will be masked on Feb 21st and removed on March 21st.
8 > > So you have eleven days to add it to package.unmask and nearly six weeks
9 > > before you need to add the kde-sunset overlay. That's assuming the
10 > > ebuilds that depend on QT3 haven't been updated to wiork with QT4, which
11 > > is highly likely as that would require upstream changes for most of them
12 > > too.
13 > >
14 > > It's a minor inconvenience, but they are giving us a decent warning.
15 > >
16 > >
17 > > --
18 > > Neil Bothwick
19 >
20 > So am I at any great risk doing an emerge -C qt-3.3 and then expecting
21 > revdep-rebuild to fix up mythtv-0.21 with qt-4 using whatever it has
22 > ffor qt3-support?
23 >
24 > I'm __really__ not ready to upgrade my whole MythTV setup 0.22 if 0.21
25 > requires qt-3 and the qt3 support stuff in qt4 doesn't work. That
26 > would be very painful for me even given 6 weeks.
27 >
28 > - Mark
29
30 quickpkg all your crap
31
32 emerge -C qt-3
33 emerge -C your mythtv stuff
34 emerge qt4 set
35 emerge current mythtv stuff
36
37 it works? congratulation!
38 it doesn't? just unmerge the new stuff and then emerge the binpkgs quickpkg
39 created. Which takes maybe 5 minutes.