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From: bn <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [SOLVED] The Great Macbook Update 3: Qt-4.5.1 to Qt-4.5.3 blocks hell
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 22:02:11
Message-Id: 4B37D469.10100@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] The Great Macbook Update 3: Qt-4.5.1 to Qt-4.5.3 blocks hell by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick ha scritto:
2 > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009 12:55:23 +0000, bn wrote:
3 >
4 >> ...I would like to update the thing piece-by-piece, to troubleshoot
5 >> better whatever happens.
6 > Start with a system update, then emerge --oneshot individual,
7 > non-QT, packages to reduce the number of packages in the big emerge.
8 >
9 >>> If not, you can either
10 >>> unmask portage, emerge portage and try again, or if you don't like
11 >>> that approach, you must do it the older, longer way:
12 >> I could do it, if I have some safety option that allows me to downgrade
13 >> portage later, in case I find problems. I am quite conservative with
14 >> this system (it's a machine I use for day-to-day work) and I wouldn't
15 >> like to have it borked.
16 >
17 > Install and run demerge, then quickpkg your existing installed packages.
18 > Demerge lets you roll back to any point at which you saved its config.
19
20 I solved the block by unmerging and re-merging the qt's and then
21 re-emerging all of KDE (for other qt software, I have to find it).
22
23 Thanks a lot for your tips -didn't know of demerge, and I will for sure
24 install it for the future.
25
26 m.