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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] kde update
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 17:17:52
Message-Id: 201105301816.55061.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] kde update by Alain DIDIERJEAN
1 On Monday 30 May 2011 17:45:17 Alain DIDIERJEAN wrote:
2 > Trying to update from kde4.5 to kde4.6
3 > A simple "emerge -uD world" gives:
4 >
5 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.7.2-r1 [4.6.3-r1] USE="-jit%
6 > -private-headers%" [ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 [4.6.3-r2]
7 > [blocks b ] <x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2 ("<x11-libs/qt-sql-4.7.2" is
8 > blocking x11-libs/qt-test-4.7.2, x11-libs/qt-svg-4.7.2,
9 [snip ...]
10
11 > (and 13 more)
12 >
13 >
14 > All together 982 lines as above.
15 > Besides that, gentoo amd64 works fine on my box and I emerge everyday
16 > packages to upgrade, except those which are kde's. Questions:
17 > - what the hell is this mess, did I do something wrong ?
18
19 No, nothing wrong, new packages that the latest qt and kde4.6 want are being
20 blocked by packages already installed.
21
22 > - have any of you got the same kind of troubles ?
23
24 Yes, I did on 3 different boxen.
25
26
27 > - is there a way to go back to an up to date clean install, I mean besides
28 > reinstalling from scratch or going for Ubuntu ? Reasons that make me go
29 > for gentoo 8 or 9 years ago:
30 > - excellent docs. (as of to-day, some docs need updating);
31 > - easyness of maintenance, no need for periodical reinstall (I'm not sure
32 > this time); - stable packages are renewed in time, not too soon, not too
33 > late; - portage works like a charm.
34 > Hope I can get some help
35
36 Don't panic! What I did was to progressively uninstall the blockers and then
37 run emerge -uaDv world. Eventually there were no blockers, the latest qt was
38 installed and then kde4.6.
39
40 Everything now is like a "clean new install" should be.
41
42 If you're running 2.2 portage there may be some automagic way of achieving
43 this, but with portage-2.1.9.42 I had to do it manually.
44
45 HTH.
46 --
47 Regards,
48 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] kde update Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>