Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 9/29/06, John Newman <jnn@×××××.net> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Recently I went to emerge ipodder, a program I've never used before but
> was interested in trying out.  Unfortunately it had a dependency on
> pythonwx >= version 2.6, which in turn had a dependency on wxGTK >=  version 2.6,
> which in turn wanted me to upgrade my entire Xorg installation... (I'm
> runnig 6.9).   Not particularly wanting to do this, I hacked my way
> around it.  (seems it works just fine with wxGTK/wxpython 2.4, which
> required no Xorg upgrade).
>
> But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X.  However,
> when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of
> "Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of
> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything.  I was thinking that
> emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade -
> that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went
> along.

The Modulas X upgrade is not that simple, its a change on the whole
structure of Xorg, not only a source code upgrade with few
implications, it also requires some configuration and attention in
order to make your X system run after the upgrade.

>
> Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
> (and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it,
> naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I
> believe?).   Or is there a better way?

You'll find the "Modular X HOWTO" at Gentoo Docs. It is pretty intersting!

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