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

[Alan McKinnon]

Let's deal with your biggest mistake first. You are running a stable
system (you have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64" in make,conf) but you want to
install gnome-3.

Now that is highly unlikely to work for a very long time yet as gnome-3
is considered nowhere near stable enough yet to be unmasked. Portage is
going to want to unmask vast chunks of your system to meet the
long deep list of dependencies for gnome-3 and this will cause you
sever amounts of pain.

Trust the folks on this list, over the years we have learned that a
stable system (with maybe a few unmasked packages) is OK, an unstable
system is also mostly OK (you just update lots of things often) but it
doesn't break fantastically every other day.

A system that is half stable, half unstable DOES break fantastically
every other day. And this is what you are trying to do.

You have many options, only two are actually realistic:

1. Stay stable, do not use gnome-3
2. Switch to unstable, do a full "emerge -e world", then emerge
gnome-3. It will go easy and probably JustWork out the box.




On Tue, 13 Mar 2012 22:33:56 +0100
Tamer Higazi <th982a@××××××××××.com> wrote:

> 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 So either your tree is outdated (you must re-sync) or gnome-3 is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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> 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 ?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
>
>



-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com