On Monday 04 February 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > > [blocks B ] kde-base/ksync (is blocking > > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.8-r10) > > I think somebody has mentioned this before ksync is part of the new > kdelibs so unmerge it to merge the new kdelibs. > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-expat-upgrading.xml
Maybe I should explain a bit more in detail how the OP should fix this, as finding kde blockers between the -meta and monolithic ebuilds is not a cut and dried process. First, I assume he has read the emerging KDE howto on the gentoo docs site, and understands the difference between -meta ebuilds, monolithic ebuilds and package ebuilds. There's not much to indicate which is which except that the -meta ebuilds have -meta in their name. Over time I have learned which are the packages distributed by kde.org and now recognize them by name. The monolithic ebuilds must then be the same without the -meta name. So, everything else is probably a package ebuild. Golden rule: You cannot mix these types, you must use one or the other. To determine blockers, there's no command I know of that does eg "equery blocks <package>" so I resort to good old grep: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ grep -r ksync /var/portage/kde-base/*/*ebuild | grep kdelibs /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7-r1.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7-r2.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.7-r3.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8-r1.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8-r2.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" /var/portage/kde-base/kdelibs/kdelibs-3.5.8-r3.ebuild: !kde-base/ksync" So, kdelibs will not install along with ksync. Now to determine what installs ksync: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends ksync [ Searching for packages depending on ksync... ] No results. Bugger. That means I don't have ksync installed, so equery can't find the info for me. Time to search the tree (this is slooooow). So one cup of coffee later: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ equery depends -a ksync [ Searching for packages depending on ksync... ] app-pda/syncekonnector-0.3_pre20060117 (=kde-base/ksync-3.5*) app-pda/syncekonnector-0.3.2 (=kde-base/ksync-3.5*) kde-base/kdepim-meta-3.5.5 (~kde-base/ksync-3.5.5) kde-base/kdepim-meta-3.5.6 (~kde-base/ksync-3.5.6) OK, Now we are getting there. kdepim-meta will install all sub-packages of kdepim. syncekonnector (probably part of kdepim-meta too) will also install ksync. Plus, kdepim (monolithic) will install all the same files as kdepim-meta, but not as individual packages. On to solutions for the OPs problem: Don't merge ksync, do merge kdepim. Convert to the -meta ebuilds and emerge ksync. This last is a lot of effort but worth it. I did it by running "eix kde" and listing what I had, unmerge the monolithic ebuilds and merge the corresponding -meta ones. It's an iterative process, I had to go back and find more stuff to unmerge once or twice. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
