Re: [gentoo-user] General weirdness - a tale of woe.

[Peter Humphrey]

On Saturday 30 May 2015 16:43:13 Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Saturday 30 May 2015 12:49:51 Mick wrote:
> > On my laptop which has stayed on Kmail-1 I have this:
> --->8
>
> > Have a look here for more details and warnings:
> >
> > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/KDE/KDEPIM-4.7_upgrade
>
> Many thanks Mick - that's very helpful.
>
> > I expect that sooner or later bitrot will catch up with Kmail-1 and it
> > will
> > stop working.  I dread for this happening, but I will not move to Kmail-2
> > until then.
>
> I don't blame you, and I wish I hadn't either. I'll see if it's possible to
> go back.

Well, it did look promising right up to the last gasp. I put those 
package.mask entries in, and I found I needed a couple of package.use entries 
as well, and then everything went suspiciously well. Portage downgraded 
several packages and recompiled several others, and I was ready to go.

At this point I must put in a word of commendation for portage: it handled 
this major regression with aplomb throughout. That is one professional 
program.

I created a new user (this is now really tedious), started KMail-1 and 
imported 14000-odd messages from the old KMail-2 - and in a fraction of the 
time that KMail-2 takes for the same task. Great! I thought. Then I found 
there was no inbox to copy its e-mails into, and I couldn't copy the folder 
because one existed already - I just couldn't see it. I think I remember it 
disappearing once or twice before in the days of KMail-1. Anyway, I couldn't 
see a way forward so I've reverted to the original KMail-2 pro tem.

Maybe I'll have another go if I remember the way out of having no inbox. 
Anyway, thanks Mick for steering me the way I wanted to go.

-- 
Rgds
Peter