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On Mittwoch 11 Februar 2009, James wrote: |
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> Hello, |
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> OK, I have read back into January the suggestions on this |
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> list about going to Kde-meta 4.2. I have dozens of workstations |
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> running gentoo, so now I'm going to upgrade one (test) laptop |
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> to get a feel for kde-4.2 and hopefully flesh out an |
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> upgrade strategy for all of these laptops and workstations |
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> running kde. I'm not so concerned with being slick, |
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> as I am discovering the verbose, *sure_footed steps* to make |
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> the migration, mechanical, because these will be done, one |
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> at a time, in the background while I do other work related |
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> tasks. The systems vary wildly (cpu, video etc) but |
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> they all have kde-meta 3.6.9 installed, currently. |
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> So here are my (gleaned) steps: |
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> 1. emerge --unmerge kde-meta |
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> 2. emerge --pretend --depclean kde-meta |
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> <check over manually> |
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> 3. emerge --depclean kde-meta |
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> 4. autounmask kde-base/kde-4.2.0 |
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> 5. echo "kde-base/kde-meta ~amd64" >>/etc/portage/package.keywords |
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> 6. emerge -DNv kde-meta |
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> Look plausible? Verbose comments are most welcome. |
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just emerge the kde-4.2 set instead of that meta stuff. |
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