[gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg
Hello, Recently I went to emerge ipodder, a program I've never used before but was interested in trying out. Unfortunately it had a dependency on pythonwx = version 2.6, which in turn had a dependency on wxGTK = version 2.6, which in turn wanted me to upgrade my entire Xorg installation... (I'm runnig 6.9). Not particularly wanting to do this, I hacked my way around it. (seems it works just fine with wxGTK/wxpython 2.4, which required no Xorg upgrade). But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However, when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of Blocked packages, the gist of it being my installation of x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything. I was thinking that emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade - that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went along. Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it, naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I believe?). Or is there a better way? thanks for any and all advice for this Gentoo fan, -- John Newman Systems Administrator Webii.net -- A WebXess, Inc. Company -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg
On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote: On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote: [SNIP] But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However, when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of Blocked packages, the gist of it being my installation of x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything. Actually it says x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 or something like that (you obviously didn't bother to show us...). You are running xorg-x11-6.8.x. The stuff looks like this: [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-tga-1.1.0) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-s3-0.4.1) [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix-1.1.0) ... etc. You're right, I'm running 6.8. Anyway, thanks for the link to the upgrade guide. I'll mess with it when I get some free time. -- john -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] hello
I have what is probably a stupid question. I run an amd64 gentoo system. I find that lots of packages have in their KEYWORDS amd64~. Up until now, to remedy this when I want to attempt to use one of these packages, I simply edit the ebuild, regenerate the digest, and do the installation. I feel sure there is an easier way around this - I've read somewhere of being able to tell the system that I am not worried about packages that haven't been tested on amd64 (thus the amd64~) - does anyone know what file I need to edit and in what way to make this work so I don't have to go through the hassle described above of editing the ebuild, regenerating the digest and then installing the package? thank you so much -- John Newman Systems Administrator, WebXess Inc. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
