On Monday, December 19, 2016 09:45:21 AM Peter Humphrey wrote: > J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote : > > On Sunday, December 18, 2016 03:11:58 PM Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Peter Humphrey pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> > > > > wrote : > > > > This morning I ran my usual daily update and was presented with a long > > > > list of kde-app packages, including KMail-2. The only problem was four > > > > blocks that portage couldn't sort out on its own, so I evicted the > > > > existing versions with emerge -C and continued. > > > > > > > > Then kleopatra failed to build, as in bug 602924. The fix there worked > > > > (I > > > > > > should call it an evasion really) and kleopatra built ok. > > > > > > I should have done some more checking before writing. The fix was to > > > > emerge > > > > > -C kde-apps/gpgmepp. I don't know whether you can do that before > > > starting > > > the upgrade, but it's worth a try. It might save a lot of work. > > > > > > At any rate, there's no sign of gpgmepp being pulled back in with the > > > new > > > 16.12.0 versions of kde-apps packages, now that the old versions have > > > > gone. > > > > More important, how is the latest kmail behaving? > > It isn't. > > I finished the emerge -e world, then @preserved-rebuild presented me with a > whole lot of packages, resulting in the same appalling mess as before: > incompatible versions being required of numerous packages. I've never had > @preserved-rebuild follow an -e world before.
Me neither, although I do wonder if it maybe caches something somewhere. I did just now have a preserved-rebuild after a depclean action. (This was after a clean update and no preserved-rebuild necessary prior to the depclean) > I've reverted to a week-old system backup, but now when I invoke KMail I get > a dialogue box saying "This will start the program kmail -qwindowtitle %c > %u. If you do not trust this program, click Cancel". What? Of course I > trust it, so I click Continue, and I get "Unable to make the service KMail > executable, aborting execution" > > What could possible go wrong with a simple offline tarring of files to USB > disk and back again? I know, I know... Did you include all the permissions in the tar during compression and extraction? > Has no-one else tried this upgrade? No, did try today, but as it has a conflict with dependencies for kmymoney (which isn't yet for slot 5), I am unwilling to proceed on this laptop. I will test my desktop later today/this week. -- Joost
