Roy Wright writes: > kde-4.3 is now unmasked for ~x86. Whooooop!
I'm also happy, and I want to upgrade soon. I hope many of those little annoyances I experience will be fixed. > But it is looking like a non-trivial upgrade. :( Yeah. > When I installed kde-4.2, I followed the advice of unmasking portage > and using sets. Also followed the recommendation to use -kdeprefix. > Further I removed kde-3.5 and added a mask on kdelibs-3.5 to help keep > 3.5 off of the system. > > So for the kde-4.3 upgrade, it looks like this is what will be > necessary: > > 1) grab the sets again from the kde-testing overlay and put them in / > etc/portage/sets (assumption is to do a replace). I did that, too, but got errors from portage (Error during set creation: Redefinition of set...). Looks like the sets are found in the kde-testing overlay, so I removed them from /etc/portage/sets, and all was fine. Coool. > 2) unmerge kde-4.2 using: emerge --unmerge @kde-4.2 Not really necessary I heard. But: I am still using the dreaded kdeprefix use flag. It sounded like a good idea to use it, and I would also like to have different minor KDE versions alongside. Okay, it's hard to maintain, I understand it will be dropped. Now, do I REALLY REALLY have to unmerge all @kde-4.2 first, remove the kdeprefix use flag, and proceed to step 3? > 3) merge kde-4.3 using: emerge -av @kde-4.3 Hopefully this runs through. If it takes a night, it's okay, but if it stops in the middle, I have no KDE for a while. And I need much of the stuff in there, like the wallet with its passwords. What about this: I update my system's backup (I'm using rdiff-backup), chroot into the backup, sudo to my account, and issue startkde. Could I get a running KDE 4.2? Then I would have time to install 4.3. > 4) recustomize kde as the ~/.kde will not be migrated I really hope I can just copy .kde4.2 to .kde4 and all (okay, most) settings will be kept. I think it just _should_ work. Customizing all over again every time a new KDE arrives would be no good. Wonko