Re: [gentoo-user] how updating to gnome3 ?!

[Tamer Higazi]

Hi Alan!
you were right. It is masked! I figured out that "autounmask" is not in
portage, because of that I believe that this might not be the only
package that is masked....


tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pv =gnome-3.2.1

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!

!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-wm/mutter-3.2.1" have been masked.
!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
request:
- x11-wm/mutter-3.2.2::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)
- x11-wm/mutter-3.2.1-r1::gentoo (masked by: ~amd64 keyword)

(dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-3.2.1" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "=gnome-3.2.1" [argument])
For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.

tamer@office ~ $





Am 12.03.2012 21:35, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
> On your system "emerge gnome" wants to install gnome-2
>
> So either your tree is outdated (you must re-sync) or gnome-3 is still
> masked. The second option is more likely and there are two
> possibilities for that:
>
> You run a stable system (gnome-3 is still unstable), or
> you masked it for some reason.
>
> Run this and examine what output you get:
>
> emerge -pv =gnome-3.2.1
>
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> On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 13:56:56 +0100
> Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Alan!
>> I thought more or less that I have to unmask packages, or making any
>> configurations to unlock the update to gnome3.
>>
>> If I run now:
>>
>> tamer@office ~ $ emerge -pav gnome
>>
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>
>> Calculating dependencies... done!
>> [ebuild   R    ] gnome-base/gnome-2.32.1-r1  USE="cdr cups dvdr ldap
>> policykit -accessibility -mono" 0 kB
>>
>> Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>> tamer@office ~ $
>>
>>
>> I get one package to reinstall.
>>
>>
>> If I run "layman -a gnome" and re-execute the command:
>>
>>
>> I got this message:
>>
>> * If you enabled the GNOME overlay to get GNOME 3.2, please disable
>>  * it now, since GNOME 3.2 is already in portage and unmasked.
>>
>>
>>
>> How do I install gnome 3.2, that is now in portage?!
>>
>>
>>
>> Tamer
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>> Am 11.03.2012 17:43, schrieb Alan McKinnon:
>>> On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 17:01:41 +0100
>>> Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi people!
>>>> I want to upgrade gnome 2.32 to gnome 3.
>>>>
>>>> First question, is it now officially supported by the gentoo team
>>>> or should I keep my fingers away of it?!
>>>>
>>>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/gnome/howtos/gnome-3.2-upgrade.xml
>>>>
>>>> doesn't tell me a lot how to accomplish this task. Is there any
>>>> official documentation telling me how to doit, unmasking, flags
>>>> etc....
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> for any advise I would thank you.
>>>
>>> What sort of information are you looking for?
>>>
>>> gnome-3 is marked unstable, so if you run ~x86 or ~amd64 just
>>>
>>> emerge -av gnome
>>>
>>> and deal with any breakage. This is generally how gentoo works for
>>> everything. What were you expecting in terms of documentation ?
>>>
>>>
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