On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:14 AM, Zeerak Mustafa Waseem <zeera...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 04:57:39AM -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: >> ...is not so good actually. Certainly not the way I'd want others to >> experience Gentoo. >> >> OK, the ~amd64 upgrade to @system was easy and relatively painless. >> The documents were fairly clear. There are things to learn, and old >> friends like rc-update and df look different, but it worked and didn't >> take long - less than an hour to reboot including editing - so that's >> good. >> >> Unfortunately, simply allowing all environments & apps on the system >> to go ~amd64 isn't working out as nicely. >> >> 1) xfce4 had one build failure. I masked it and the build finished. >> xfce starts and seems to mostly work, but I get no wallpaper and the >> right click for a menu on the desktop doesn't work. It's usable, but >> clearly 'not stable'. >> > > Are there any bugs on this? Perhaps it's a configurations thing :-)
Between xfce4 & gnome I've seen about a dozen packages fail to build this morning and haven't yet checked bug reports. I suspect that many or more kde packages would get added to the list if I tried ~amd64 kde. I'm sure you're possibly right about it being a 'configuration thing'. <SNIP> > >> QUESTION: Assume I'm happy with ~amd64 on @system, but want to build >> the stable version of gnome or kde. How do I get it? Since gnome-2.26 >> worked yesterday I tried masking >=gnome-2.28. emerge -DuN gnome. >> Portage then didn't try to emerge the meta-package but doesn't take >> all of gnome back to 2.26. There's no point trying kde as gnome pulled >> in kde components that doesn't build either. Hopefully it's not 'mask >> every package in gnome by hand'. >> > > The way to hold packages back would be adding foo/bar -~arch to your > package.keywords file. That way portage will only look at the stable > packages. It's tedious to do it by hand (and I don't know any automated > process), but if most of your system will be running ~arch then I'd suggest > that you stay ~arch, and vice versa if most of the system is running arch. Thanks. The -~arch thing is what I was looking for info wise. However doing that to all of gnome or kde's packages is too much work. <SNIP> > > Hope it helps :-) > > -- > Zeerak Waseem > It does, very much! Thanks! Cheers, Mark
