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Roy Wright writes: |
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> kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whooooop! |
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I'm also happy, and I want to upgrade soon. I hope many of those little |
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annoyances I experience will be fixed. |
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> But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( |
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Yeah. |
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> When I installed kde-4.2, I followed the advice of unmasking portage |
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> and using sets. Also followed the recommendation to use -kdeprefix. |
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> Further I removed kde-3.5 and added a mask on kdelibs-3.5 to help keep |
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> 3.5 off of the system. |
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> So for the kde-4.3 upgrade, it looks like this is what will be |
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> necessary: |
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> 1) grab the sets again from the kde-testing overlay and put them in / |
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> etc/portage/sets (assumption is to do a replace). |
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I did that, too, but got errors from portage (Error during set creation: |
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Redefinition of set...). Looks like the sets are found in the kde-testing |
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overlay, so I removed them from /etc/portage/sets, and all was fine. Coool. |
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> 2) unmerge kde-4.2 using: emerge --unmerge @kde-4.2 |
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Not really necessary I heard. |
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But: I am still using the dreaded kdeprefix use flag. It sounded like a good |
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idea to use it, and I would also like to have different minor KDE versions |
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alongside. Okay, it's hard to maintain, I understand it will be dropped. |
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Now, do I REALLY REALLY have to unmerge all @kde-4.2 first, remove the |
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kdeprefix use flag, and proceed to step 3? |
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> 3) merge kde-4.3 using: emerge -av @kde-4.3 |
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Hopefully this runs through. If it takes a night, it's okay, but if it stops |
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in the middle, I have no KDE for a while. And I need much of the stuff in |
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there, like the wallet with its passwords. |
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What about this: I update my system's backup (I'm using rdiff-backup), |
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chroot into the backup, sudo to my account, and issue startkde. Could I get |
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a running KDE 4.2? Then I would have time to install 4.3. |
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> 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated |
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I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most) settings |
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will be kept. I think it just _should_ work. Customizing all over again |
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every time a new KDE arrives would be no good. |
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Wonko |
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