On Saturday 17 December 2005 22:57, a tiny voice compelled Richard Fish to
write:
> On 12/17/05, LostSon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Saturday 17 December 2005 21:17, Nick Rout wrote:
> > > I see a lot of people seem to have upgraded to kde 3.5.
> > >
> > > I am currently running kde 3.4.1 (installed via kde-meta) and stable is
> > > 3.4.3. However reports seem to be that 3.5.0 seems good enuf to work
> > > with and I can't be bothered compiling 3.4.3 and then 3.5 later.
> > >
> > > Soooo, is there an easy way forward? I suspect I could enter a large
> > > number of packages as ~x86 in /etc/portage/package.keywords, or I could
> > > ask here if there is an easier way.
> > >
> > > Answers on the back of an envelope etc etc :-)
> > >
> > > Oh and apologies if this is covered somewhere really basic and I missed
> > > it, I did look, honest (and the wiki seems to be down for me today).
> > >
> > > NRR
> >
> > Hello
> > Simply use
> >
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge kde
>
> Except the next time you want to "emerge -Duv world", it will want to
> downgrade. Assuming you don't want a full ~x86 version, do:
>
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p kde-meta
>
> This will give a list of all packages to add to
> /etc/portage/package.keywords. You can even automate this with:
>
> for x in `ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge -p kde-meta | awk '{ print $4
> }' | grep "/"`
> do
> echo "$x ~x86" >> /etc/portage/package.keywords
> done
>
> -Richard
Take it from me, do it as Richard says or you'll be in for a severe shock next
emerge -ua world. I had to downgrade 72 packages that were brought in when I
put ACCEPT_KEYWORDS on the command line.
Wait til Holly sees this <grin>
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