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On Wednesday 25 November 2009 18:54:54 James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> I've been updating a kde3 workstation to kde4 |
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> off and on for a few days now. KDE4 is installed |
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> and seem to work, no extensive testing yet. |
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> However, when I run revdep-rebuild, it complains |
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> about numerous kde3 based packages. Most, if not all |
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> had the kde4 equivalent packages installed. So I just |
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> manually deleted the list of kde3.5.x based packages. |
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> <snip> |
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> So a few more manual passes of removing the offending kde-3.5.x |
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> packages and I'm down to this list of packages that |
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> revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild: |
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> I get the list from revdep-rebuild, research if I want the |
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> packages and then clean out the (crufted) revdep-rebuild |
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> list and continue until I'm down to these packages: |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> [ebuild N ] sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.24-r1 USE="(-selinux)" |
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> [ebuild U ] media-libs/lcms-1.18-r1 [1.17] |
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> [ebuild R ] sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 |
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> [ebuild R ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.8.1.19 |
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> [ebuild U ] net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.1.4 [1.9.0.7] USE="alsa%* python%* |
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> -debug% -sqlite% -startup-notification*" |
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> [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hal-0.5.12_rc1-r8 |
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> So far so good. I did not actually allow revdep-rebuild to |
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> complete, as I want all vestiges of kde3 and other cruft gone. |
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> Now I have a list I can focus on, except, I'm confused about |
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> device-mapper, ,cryptsetup, and xulrunner as my research suggest |
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> device-mapper is not needed, but it is being call by: |
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> [ Searching for packages depending on device-mapper... ] |
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> sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6-r2 (>=sys-fs/device-mapper-1.00.07-r1) |
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> Research suggests that I can install lvm2 and be done with that? But it |
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> first wants to call back device-mapper? |
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device-mapper has been moved into lvm2 as only it and crypt really use it. |
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Just bypass revdep-rebuild for this and install lvm2, then possibly reboot and |
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remove device-mapper. |
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I find it odd that you have two SLOTs of xulrunner. These days we tend to need |
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only one at a time. Perhaps you have both in world; what does equery depends |
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have to say about those packages? |
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For the rest, just let revdep-rebuild rebuild them |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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