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From: James <wireless@×××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 18:25:35
Message-Id: loom.20090211T181056-648@post.gmane.org
1 Hello,
2
3 OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this
4 list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations
5 running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop
6 to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an
7 upgrade strategy for all of these laptops and workstations
8 running kde. I'm not so concerned with being slick,
9 as I am discovering the verbose, *sure_footed steps* to make
10 the migration, mechanical, because these will be done, one
11 at a time, in the background while I do other work related
12 tasks. The systems vary wildly (cpu, video etc) but
13 they all have kde-meta 3.6.9 installed, currently.
14
15
16 So here are my (gleaned) steps:
17
18 1. emerge --unmerge kde-meta
19
20 2. emerge --pretend --depclean kde-meta
21 <check over manually>
22
23 3. emerge --depclean kde-meta
24
25 4. autounmask kde-base/kde-4.2.0
26
27 5. echo "kde-base/kde-meta ~amd64" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords
28
29 6. emerge -DNv kde-meta
30
31
32
33 Look plausible? Verbose comments are most welcome.
34
35
36 James

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] KDE-meta 4.2 upgrade Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>