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Just showing a couple of tricks. |
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On Thursday 22 June 2006 20:15, James wrote: |
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> Yes, That solves how to install a new kde (mono, meta, split) but |
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> does not really address cleanzing the sytem of all the old kde kruft. |
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> I have stuff from kde 3.2, 3.3., 3.4 on some of my older systems. |
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This removes everything in kde-base that is version 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4 (and |
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installed of course): |
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# cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva kde-base/*-3.{2,3,4}* |
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> > #cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva `ls -d kde-base/* | grep -v -r \ |
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> > 'kdelibs\|arts'` |
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One could add a version too so that only the newest version of kdelibs and |
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arts is kept since it is still required. Like this: |
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# cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva `ls kde-base | grep -v -r 'kdelibs-3\.5\.3\|arts-3\.5\.3'` |
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> Beside, my thoughts are to remove everthing and start from fresh, as |
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> I seem to be tracking down a multitude of kde related trivial issues |
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> on a variety of kde/gentoo systems I manage. |
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This removes everything in kde-base. It's equivalent to Neils suggestion. |
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# cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva kde-base/* |
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Also after removing old slots there may still be third party apps left that has |
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been compiled against the old versions. They need to be remerged after the new |
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version of kde has been emerged to compile them against the new version and |
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remove the old cruft in /usr/kde/3.4 etc. |
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This will show you what packages still have cruft in /usr/kde/3.2 - 3.4: |
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# find /usr/kde/3.{2,3,4} | xargs equery belongs | cat |
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Unmerge what you don't need or remerge (after emerging kde 3.5) what you still |
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need. When you are done with that the above command should give no output and |
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any files still in /usr/kde/3.2 - 3.4 can be safely deleted since they belong |
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to no package. Pay attention to what you do though. A revdep-rebuild before |
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this step will probably take care of most of this. |
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> xfree_vs_xorg, dev_vs_udev, and now kde seem to need major surgery.... |
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> Historical experiences with Gentoo. Gentoo is great for the current |
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> new stuff, but often, I'm learning and dealing with minutia, I would |
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> prefer to avoid. When I do avoid the gentoo minutia, I get burned, |
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> like now having to move to meta or split. Granted, in the long run, |
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> these migrations have been good, but it's still painful (time consuming) |
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> to walk the gentoo path, at times.... |
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The split packages are replacing the monolithic. Not the other way around. And |
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KDE 4.x will get out next spring. |
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Bo Andresen |
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