Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild EVEN IF some needed package is masked

[Alex Schuster]

Helmut Jarausch writes:

> emerge @preserved-rebuild fails to do any updating since a single
> (needed) package has been masked.
> But I do need to keep kdelibs:3.5 which pulls in
>  kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi:3.5 which has been masked.
>
> Is it possible to tell emerge to do the other updates which don't need
> this?
>
> Dropping kde:3.5 too early is one of the biggest disappointsment of
> GenToo! For someone who needs some package depending on it, it's really
> hard. (I do need kexi)

Well, it's still all there, not in the official Gentoo portage tree, but 
in the kde-sunset overlay. Get it, unmask all the KDE 3.5 stuff, and all 
should be fine again. See this guide for details:

http://www.linuxized.com/2009/11/how-to-keep-your-kde-3-5-after-its-
removed-gentoos-tree-using-the-kde-sunset-overlay/

weird ~ # eix kdnssd-avahi
* kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi
     Available versions:  (3.5)  {M}0.1.2[1] {M}0.1.2-r1 {M}0.1.2-r1[1]
        {arts debug elibc_FreeBSD xinerama}
     Homepage:            http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-
index.php?page=Zeroconf+in+KDE
     Description:         DNS Service Discovery kioslave using Avahi 
(rather than mDNSResponder)

[1] "kde-sunset" /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset
weird ~ # emerge -ptv kdnssd-avahi

These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] kde-misc/kdnssd-avahi-0.1.2-r1  USE="(-arts) -debug -
xinerama" 739 kB [1]
[ebuild  N    ]  net-dns/avahi-0.6.24-r2  USE="dbus gdbm gtk ipv6 python 
qt4 -autoipd -bookmarks -doc -howl-compat -mdnsresponder-compat -mono -qt3 
-test" 1,090 kB [1]
[ebuild  N    ]   dev-libs/libdaemon-0.13-r1  USE="-doc -examples" 360 kB 
[0]

Total: 3 packages (3 new), Size of downloads: 2,188 kB
Portage tree and overlays:
 [0] /usr/portage/tree
 [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset

	Wonko