Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-03 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Are you using kde-4.0.x or why do you have kde-3.5.7. Tried to update to kde-4.0.x near the end of January. This was after almost two years of not updating anything. This led to a emerge -uD world which took about a week over my string-and-can modem. Many, many failure to build

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion--FIXED

2008-03-03 Thread maxim wexler
Now do emerge -avuND world to make sure everything is up to date followed by emerge -av --depclean and revdep-rebuild ... Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. Amen. Be a

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, Notice in the following portage has nothing to say about blockers following a warning from revdep-rebuild. And the -u switch calls forth an earlier version of python but without the -u switch is content to re-emerge the newer package

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 1 Mar 2008 22:10:39 -0800 (PST), maxim wexler wrote: Notice in the following portage has nothing to say about blockers following a warning from revdep-rebuild. And the -u switch calls forth an earlier version of python but without the -u switch is content to re-emerge the newer

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but first find out what is using it: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might want to make a backup (just in case): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 [

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but first find out what is using it: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might want to make a backup (just in case): [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: Re-emerged gentoolkit. Now I get: snip long list [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ Again, not nothing. I can't unmerge all this stuff can I? Should I still run python-updater etc? No, you don;t need to unmerge all of it - most of those are virtuals or

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
--- Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but first find out what is using it: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might want to

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Willie Wong
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:34:30PM -0800, Penguin Lover maxim wexler squawked: Re-emerged gentoolkit. Now I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 [ Searching for packages depending on =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3... ] app-office/dia-0.95.1 (python? snip

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
python. So you *should* be able to unmerge the old one. If something does break... then file a bug at b.g.o. It want's to grab both of them. How do I move 2.4.4.r6 to the protected column? Or should I? Is this a good place to use the operator? localhost heathen # emerge -pC python These

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
maxim wexler schrieb: python. So you *should* be able to unmerge the old one. If something does break... then file a bug at b.g.o. It want's to grab both of them. How do I move 2.4.4.r6 to the protected column? Or should I? Is this a good place to use the operator? try emerge -pC

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 01:46:08 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: emerge -avC =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 Unmerging python will leave you with an unusuable portage and you'll need a backup copy or other voodoo to get it going again. What you actually want is to remove just the SLOT you are no longer

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 03 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: python. So you *should* be able to unmerge the old one. If something does break... then file a bug at b.g.o. It want's to grab both of them. How do I move 2.4.4.r6 to the protected column? Or should I? Is this a good place to use the

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
quickpkg =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 done then run python-updater localhost heathen # python-updater * Can't determine any previous Python version(s). Now do emerge -avuND world ... [blocks B ] app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 (is blocking app-crypt/qca-2.0.0-r2) ... So, localhost heathen #

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Pielmeier
Now do emerge -avuND world ... [blocks B ] app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3 (is blocking app-crypt/qca-2.0.0-r2) ... So, localhost heathen # emerge -pvC qca These are the packages that would be unmerged: app-crypt/qca selected: 2.0.0-r2 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected'

Re: [gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-02 Thread maxim wexler
Are you using kde-4.0.x or why do you have kde-3.5.7. Tried to update to kde-4.0.x near the end of January. This was after almost two years of not updating anything. This led to a emerge -uD world which took about a week over my string-and-can modem. Many, many failure to build errors kept me

[gentoo-user] portage confusion

2008-03-01 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, Notice in the following portage has nothing to say about blockers following a warning from revdep-rebuild. And the -u switch calls forth an earlier version of python but without the -u switch is content to re-emerge the newer package which I already have on my system. This was all