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On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected |
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>> by this upgrade :-) |
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> I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything |
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> was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, so I |
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> then RTFMed, ran the commands from that web page and all was fine. |
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> Konqueror kept working fine, so I didn't need to remember how to work any |
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> of the lynx variants. |
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You must be very lucky to have such a fast machine. |
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I'm following the recipe on |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml |
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which results in |
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emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xcb-proto x11-libs/libxcb |
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emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xproto x11-proto/xextproto x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext |
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/usr/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh |
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emerge -1 -j4 \ |
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$(for i in x11-proto/ x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext \ |
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x11-libs/libX x11-libs/xcb-util x11-libs/cairo \ |
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x11-libs/pango x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libgnomeui \ |
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x11-libs/qt-gui; do \ |
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qlist -IC $i; \ |
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done) -v |
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revdep-rebuild -L libxcb-xlib.so.0 -- -j4 --ask --keep-going |
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This requires to rebuild 182 packages and proably several |
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hours on a modern PC (Phenom II 4 cores) |
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(this includes some not so tiny packages like gcc (2 slots) |
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several gnome and kde libraries) |
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(Sometimes, Gentoo is an expensive hobby) |
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Helmut. |
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Helmut Jarausch |
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Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik |
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RWTH - Aachen University |
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D 52056 Aachen, Germany |
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