Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 09:00 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Mick did opine thusly: On Monday 31 January 2011 23:31:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: So it's not even a learning opportunity. But upgrading to KDE-4.6.0 from 4.5.x when I had kbluetooth installed - now *that* was an excellent

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Portage can deal with a pure kde-4.5.x to 4.6.0 upgrade, the blockers are all soft ones so they just get automagically dealt with. But kbluetooth has this gem: COMMON_DEPEND= kde-base/kdelibs-4.6[semantic-desktop?] kde-base/libkworkspace-4.6

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Sebastian Beßler
Am 01.02.2011 18:38, schrieb Dale: Do you have k3b installed? I tried to install it here, it was a blocker earlier so I -C'd it, and it appears k3b wants a older version of qt stuff and KDE 4.6 wants the new versions of qt stuff. I have not been able to work around this yet but would love to

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 19:38 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Portage can deal with a pure kde-4.5.x to 4.6.0 upgrade, the blockers are all soft ones so they just get automagically dealt with. But kbluetooth has this gem:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Of course it can be done :-) Output trimmed for brevity. $ eix kdebase-meta [I] kde-base/kdebase-meta Available versions: (4.4) 4.4.5 (4.5) (~)4.5.5 (4.6) {M}(~)4.6.0 {aqua kdeprefix} Installed versions:

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Of course it can be done :-) Output trimmed for brevity. $ eix kdebase-meta [I] kde-base/kdebase-meta Available versions: (4.4) 4.4.5

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: (x11-libs/qt-multimedia-4.6.3, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by =x11-libs/qt-multimedia-4.6.0:4 required by (app-cdr/k3b-2.0.2-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge)

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 23:29 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:25 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: (x11-libs/qt-multimedia-4.6.3, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Sebastian Beßler wrote: I have KDE 4.6 and k3b installed here without problems. metatron@Shao ~ $ emerge $(qlist -IC qt- k3b kdelibs) -vp These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] x11-libs/qt-core-4.7.1-r1 USE=exceptions glib

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Yup, that output looks much better. And you can take a roasting joke in your stride (good man!). I think we all need to put our heads together and come up with sensible formatting for emerge's error output. Coz I'm sure getting tired of pawing my way through endless lines

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:34 on Wednesday 02 February 2011, Dale did opine thusly: Alan McKinnon wrote: Yup, that output looks much better. And you can take a roasting joke in your stride (good man!). I think we all need to put our heads together and come up with sensible

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-02-01 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 01 February 2011 23:56:32 Alan McKinnon wrote: It makes sense to a programmer. It's not supposed to make sense to a programmer, as you know as well as I do. It's supposed to make sense to the poor fool reading it. :-) -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.

[gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread Andrei Brezan
Hi list, First, i'm not an experienced user of gentoo, just started using it a couple of months ago, I come from freebsd world which i find it to be similar in many ways with the gentoo world. I have a really old server on which I performed emerge --sync and after I had to eselect profile

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread David Abbott
This may help; http://blog.jolexa.net/2009/03/25/gentoo-tips-to-upgrade-your-really-old-installation/

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Monday 31 January 2011, Andrei Brezan did opine thusly: Hi list, First, i'm not an experienced user of gentoo, just started using it a couple of months ago, I come from freebsd world which i find it to be similar in many ways with the gentoo world.

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread Mick
On Monday 31 January 2011 19:57:01 Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Monday 31 January 2011, Andrei Brezan did opine thusly: [snip ...] Is it possible to update this system? If yes please shed some light or point me in the right direction. It's certainly

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 00:49 on Tuesday 01 February 2011, Mick did opine thusly: It is so much easier to just backup your data files and re-install, then restore the data. It'll take a few hours, trying to upgrade might take days. If you want to try, start with emerge -avuND

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge on really old tree

2011-01-31 Thread Mick
On Monday 31 January 2011 23:31:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: So it's not even a learning opportunity. But upgrading to KDE-4.6.0 from 4.5.x when I had kbluetooth installed - now *that* was an excellent learning opportunity. Tell us more ... what are the gotchas? -- Regards, Mick signature.asc