On 10 Feb, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Mittwoch 10 Februar 2010, Helmut Jarausch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> has anybody a recipe on this upgrade hell each time KDE release a new >> version? >> This time existing KDE-4.3.5 packages block KDE-4.4 packages though they >> go to different slots. >> Even portage-2.2_rc62 is unable to cope with that. >> >> Thanks for a hint, >> Helmut. > > I had no problems going form 4.4rc2 to 4.4. Besides removing soprano. > > And slots don't mean anything since everything ends straight in /usr. If > there > are blocks, unmerge them. > > emerge -C ... > > or even faster > > pmerge --unmerge ... > > pretty easy. You can even unmerge whole sets. Superfast.
Thanks, but what's 'pmerge' ? Is it in any overlay? Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
