Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Choice of MUA

2016-08-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Friday 12 Aug 2016 16:36:37 Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-08-11, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > On Wednesday 10 Aug 2016 15:21:54 Philip Webb wrote: > >> 160810 Peter Humphrey wrote: > >> > I've been using KMail for many years. It suits me in many ways, > >> > the most important being that I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 12:54:37 schrieb hw: > Hi, > > I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it > needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. > > I´m running into merge conflicts when tryin

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread hw
Fernando Rodriguez schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 08/12/2016 08:44 AM, Jeroen Mathon wrote: Is it perhaps an idea to mask the gentoolkit package when updating portage? Since that version of gentoolkit doesn't depend on a specific version of portage but does depend

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Friday 15 July 2016, Robin Atwood wrote: > On Tuesday 12 July 2016, Andrés Becerra Sandoval wrote: > > 2016-07-09 8:52 GMT-05:00 Robin Atwood : > > > Attempting to update/world this weekend I get: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > # emerge -uDv @world > > > > > > > > > > > > These are

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread hw
Rich Freeman schrieb: On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: Hi, I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. I´m running into merge conflicts wh

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread hw
Michael Orlitzky schrieb: On 08/12/2016 08:26 AM, hw wrote: Try the other suggestions first -- but as a last resort -- you can always grab a new stage3 that should contain an updated version of portage and simply overwrite the portage files on your machine. A quickpkg from another Gentoo machin

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread hw
james schrieb: On 08/12/2016 07:26 AM, hw wrote: Michael Orlitzky schrieb: On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: Hi, I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. I´m running into merge conflicts when tr

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread hw
Andreas K. Hüttel schrieb: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mittwoch, 10. August 2016, 12:54:37 schrieb hw: Hi, I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. I´m running into merge co

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 16:26:21 hw wrote: > Andreas K. Hüttel schrieb: > > If you see this now, your production server hasn't been updated for a > > long time... > > About 1.5 years --- not really a long time. Au contraire. In a Gentoo world, this is comparable with the age of the universe. And

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-13 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > And the next problem: > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: - kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallp

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread Andreas K. Hüttel
Am Samstag, 13. August 2016, 16:26:21 schrieb hw: > > Interesting idea :) I´d be afraid that this version of portage might > find files of the regular installation and get confused and kill the > kittens ... Well this is essentially how portage team (to my knowlegde) tests git HEAD version of p

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-13 Thread Daniel Frey
On 08/13/2016 06:56 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > Why does kdebase-startkde:4 want plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5? has > anyone solved this yet? > > > > Thanks > > Robin > Somewhere in this thread they mentioned they're cleaning up old ebuilds, so kde4 is requiring all sorts of kde5 ebuilds no

Re: [gentoo-user] Update blocked by kdebase-startkde:4

2016-08-13 Thread Robin Atwood
On Saturday 13 August 2016, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Saturday 13 Aug 2016 20:56:50 Robin Atwood wrote: > > And the next problem: > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > > "kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-wallpapers:5" have been masked. > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread james
On 08/13/2016 10:22 AM, hw wrote: james schrieb: On 08/12/2016 07:26 AM, hw wrote: Michael Orlitzky schrieb: On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: Hi, I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. I´m r

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread james
On 08/10/2016 06:54 AM, hw wrote: Hi, I´m trying to upgrade portage because I´m getting a message that it needs to be able to work with EAPI 6 packages and can only do EAPI 5. I´m running into merge conflicts when trying to update portage, and apparently one of the packages (dev-python/cryptog

[gentoo-user] kactivitymanagerd endless update loop

2016-08-13 Thread Jörg Schaible
Hi, my system is still KDE 4 with the help of kde-sunset. However, I face an endless loop installing kactivitymanagerd. The package has been in group kde-base for KDE 4 and so it is in kde-sunset. However in central portage tree it has been moved to group kde-plasma. The annoying part is now,

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:26:21 +0200, hw wrote: > > If you see this now, your production server hasn't been updated for a > > long time... > > About 1.5 years --- not really a long time. You're kidding, right? You're running a production server without the last 18 months' worth of security updat

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 13 Aug 2016 16:08:34 +0200, hw wrote: > infrequently update Gentoo because I´m *always* running into problems > like this. Every time, or is that just hyperbole? > 'Infrequently' means about every 3 months at home, and not > since, IIRC, 2015-02 here at work. The last update at home g

Re: [gentoo-user] EAPI packages

2016-08-13 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Aug 13, 2016 at 10:08 AM, hw wrote: > > I infrequently update Gentoo because I´m *always* running into problems > like this. 'Infrequently' means about every 3 months at home, and not > since, IIRC, 2015-02 here at work. The last update at home got stalled > because perl cannot be update

Re: [gentoo-user] kactivitymanagerd endless update loop

2016-08-13 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Sat, 13 Aug 2016, Jörg Schaible wrote: >my system is still KDE 4 with the help of kde-sunset. I don't use that repo yet, but I've copied the KDE4 stuff (relevant for me) into my local overlay. >However, I face an endless loop installing kactivitymanagerd. The >package has been in group