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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree
Date: Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:54:20
Message-Id: 201102012046.09490.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree by Dale
1 Apparently, though unproven, at 19:38 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did
2 opine thusly:
3
4 > Alan McKinnon wrote:
5 > > Portage can deal with a pure kde-4.5.x to 4.6.0 upgrade, the blockers are
6 > > all soft ones so they just get automagically dealt with.
7 > >
8 > > But kbluetooth has this gem:
9 > >
10 > > COMMON_DEPEND="
11 > >
12 > > <kde-base/kdelibs-4.6[semantic-desktop?]
13 > > <kde-base/libkworkspace-4.6
14 > > <kde-base/solid-4.6[bluetooth]
15 > >
16 > > "
17 > >
18 > > Oops. Blocks kdelibs. Basically nothing can proceed but portage doesn't
19 > > know that so it dumps about 300 lines of errors on-screen. And the poor
20 > > user has to sift through all of that to find the root cause. It's there,
21 > > just hidden right in the middle of all the other junk on screen
22 >
23 > Do you have k3b installed? I tried to install it here, it was a blocker
24 > earlier so I -C'd it, and it appears k3b wants a older version of qt
25 > stuff and KDE 4.6 wants the new versions of qt stuff. I have not been
26 > able to work around this yet but would love to know if it is doable yet.
27
28 Of course it can be done :-)
29 Output trimmed for brevity.
30
31 $ eix kdebase-meta
32 [I] kde-base/kdebase-meta
33 Available versions:
34 (4.4) 4.4.5
35 (4.5) (~)4.5.5
36 (4.6) {M}(~)4.6.0
37 {aqua kdeprefix}
38 Installed versions: 4.6.0(4.6)(04:58:02 28/01/11)(-aqua -kdeprefix)
39 Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
40 Description: Merge this to pull in all kdebase-derived packages
41
42 $ eix k3b
43 [I] app-cdr/k3b
44 Available versions: (4) 2.0.1-r1 (~)2.0.2-r1
45 Installed versions: 2.0.2-r1(4)(18:11:41 27/01/11)(dvd encode ffmpeg
46 flac lame mad musepack musicbrainz vcd vorbis wav -aqua -debug -emovix -hal
47 -kdeenablefinal -sndfile -sox -taglib)
48 Homepage: http://www.k3b.org/
49 Description: The CD/DVD Kreator for KDE
50
51
52 "qt" doesn't show up in the k3b ebuild anywhere so your blocker is probably
53 from one of the deps. It inherits the same eclass as KDE so it's not that. I
54 remeber having to unmerge k3b and merge it later, but that seemed to be a hal
55 thing.
56
57 What does emerge -t show?
58
59 --
60 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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