Re: [gentoo-user] At last! A Qt5 version of KMail-2 - but here be dragons!

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 19 Dec 2016 14:14:56 J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Monday, December 19, 2016 09:45:21 AM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote :
> > > On Sunday, December 18, 2016 03:11:58 PM Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > Peter Humphrey peter@××××××××××××.uk>
> > >
> > > wrote :
> > > > > This morning I ran my usual daily update and was presented with a
> > > > > long
> > > > > list of kde-app packages, including KMail-2. The only problem was
> > > > > four
> > > > > blocks that portage couldn't sort out on its own, so I evicted the
> > > > > existing versions with emerge -C and continued.
> > > > >
> > > > > Then kleopatra failed to build, as in bug 602924. The fix there
> > > > > worked
> > >
> > > (I
> > >
> > > > > should call it an evasion really) and kleopatra built ok.
> > > >
> > > > I should have done some more checking before writing. The fix was to
> > >
> > > emerge
> > >
> > > > -C kde-apps/gpgmepp. I don't know whether you can do that before
> > > > starting
> > > > the upgrade, but it's worth a try. It might save a lot of work.
> > > >
> > > > At any rate, there's no sign of gpgmepp being pulled back in with
> > > > the
> > > > new
> > > > 16.12.0 versions of kde-apps packages, now that the old versions
> > > > have
> > >
> > > gone.
> > >
> > > More important, how is the latest kmail behaving?
> >
> > It isn't.
> >
> > I finished the emerge -e world, then @preserved-rebuild presented me
> > with a whole lot of packages, resulting in the same appalling mess as
> > before: incompatible versions being required of numerous packages. I've
> > never had @preserved-rebuild follow an -e world before.
>
> Me neither, although I do wonder if it maybe caches something somewhere.
> I did just now have a preserved-rebuild after a depclean action.
> (This was after a clean update and no preserved-rebuild necessary prior to
> the depclean)
>
> > I've reverted to a week-old system backup, but now when I invoke KMail I
> > get a dialogue box saying "This will start the program kmail
> > -qwindowtitle %c %u. If you do not trust this program, click Cancel".
> > What? Of course I trust it, so I click Continue, and I get "Unable to
> > make the service KMail executable, aborting execution"
> >
> > What could possible go wrong with a simple offline tarring of files to
> > USB disk and back again? I know, I know...
>
> Did you include all the permissions in the tar during compression and
> extraction?

The command in my backup script is:

	tar cpf /mnt/sda/peak/main/current/main.tar -C /mnt/main .

/mnt/main is where my rescue system mounts the main system for backup. Do I 
need to add --xattrs to the tar command?


-- 
Regards
Peter