Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-4.4 strikes again

[Alan McKinnon]

On Wednesday 10 February 2010 12:32:11 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> On 10 Feb, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Wednesday 10 February 2010 10:36:35 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new
> >> version?
> >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they
> >> go to different slots.
> >> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that.
> >
> > Remove ALL version-specific information for kde entries from world.
>
> There are no specific version of kde in world
>
> > Don't mix and match -meta packages and sets.
>
> What do you mean by that? I don't think I have any kde-sets here
>
> # emerge --list-sets
> downgrade
> installed
> live-rebuild
> module-rebuild
> preserved-rebuild
> security
> selected
> system
> unavailable
> world
>
> > Beware of kde-misc entries - often times they have depends on the old
> > SLOT and pull in conflicts. These ebuilds are not as maintained as the
> > kdebase ones, same with the apps themselves.

In general terms, portage knows you have package A that must stay at v4.3.5 
and you want to upgrade it (or more likely something that depends on it) to 
v4.4. It's telling you "I can't/won't do that".

Please post the portage output for the blockers that portage won't resolve 
(not everything, that will be about 5000 lines) plus the command you are 
running if it's not "emerge -avuND world".

Also, are you aware that as of yesterday, KDE-4.4 was still hard masked in 
$PORTDIR/profiles/package.mask? It may have been removed meanwhile since my 
last sync. And what do you have related to kde in your own 
/etc/portage/package* ?


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