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On Tuesday 20 Dec 2016 11:17:54 J. Roeleveld wrote: |
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> On Tuesday, December 20, 2016 09:59:44 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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> > /mnt/main is where my rescue system mounts the main system for backup. |
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> > Do I need to add --xattrs to the tar command? |
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> I do, when it comes to creating a stage4 tarfile. Not sure if this is |
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> necessary. |
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> Maybe that is used somewhere, or is it possible you miss something in the |
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> main system mount? |
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I'm sure the problem isn't in my backup script. It's always worked perfectly |
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before. All the same, I have now added --xattrs to every tar command in it. |
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D'you want to know what else I've been doing all day? Go on, do you? |
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I'll tell you anyway. |
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To stand any chance of upgrading KDE apps to 16.12.0, I first evicted every |
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package returned by eix -Cc dev-qt and eix -Cc kde-plasma, plus a few more |
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individual packages that were also getting in the way. (The eix man page is |
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helpful in showing how to extract just the cat/pkg from a list of package |
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names. Full marks for ingenuity!) |
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Then I ran a -uaDvU world to install 300 "new" packages. Hours later, I had |
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a load more @preserved-rebuild packages to install. I've attached the |
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output, which shows that it wants to go back to the superseded versions. [0] |
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shows what it thinks it can install, while [1] lists all the things that |
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stop it doing anything |
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Still absolutely no go. Oddly enough, BGO has only a few 16.12.0 package |
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bugs and they're all about single packages - nothing to indicate the system- |
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wide problems I'm having, so it looks as though I have a combination of |
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packages that cause problems themselves. |
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I've now reverted to the good backup I made this morning. I shall have to |
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consider whether to start building a new system from scratch, a bit at a |
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time, until I find the culprit. It'd keep me occupied over Christmas, |
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anyway. |
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[0] wilco |
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[1] blocks.etc |
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Regards |
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Peter |