Thank you very much Alan! I keep the finger away of it. And continue running Gnome2. Not important for me updating the wm to gnome3.
It's a developer machine. :-) Tamer Am 13.03.2012 23:10, schrieb 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 <th9...@googlemail.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 So either your tree is outdated (you must re-sync) or gnome-3 is 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 <th9...@googlemail.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 <th9...@googlemail.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 ? >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> > > >
