Mark Haney wrote: > Well, I'm ready and willing to upgrade to KDE 4.2 but I've got an issue. > I still have KDE 3.5.9 on my system. I probably can kill it, but I'm > curious as to a solution to my problem. > > When I checked on upgrading to 4.2 this is what I got: > > [blocks B ] <=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10 > ("<=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10" is blocking > kde-base/kdelibs-4.2.0) > [blocks B ] <=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r3 > ("<=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r3" is blocking > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r2) > > So, I tried to install kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r3 and I got this: > > emerge -av =kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r3 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy > "=kde-base/kdebase-startkde-3.5.10-r3". > > I don't understand how come I can't seem to find that ebuild? > > I've got an -r5 in my tree, but no -r3. Revisions are quickly excised when new revisions come out.
When doing something like this, you shouldn't specify exact versions. For example, try emerge -av "<kde-base/kdebase-startkde-4" to simply get the highest kde3 version that's not masked somehow. Sebastian