On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 9:55 AM, Mark Knecht<markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 6:54 AM, Mark Haney<mha...@ercbroadband.org> wrote: >> I'm trying to upgrade to 4.3 from 4.2.4 and I've been seeing the blocks >> that are keeping me from upgrading. According to the wiki page I should: >> >>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned kde-base/* items in >>> /var/lib/portage/world >>> # Check that you don’t have any 4.2 versioned sets in >>> /var/lib/portage/world_sets >> >> I did that, and I do have a few KDE things in world. My question is, >> how do I fix that? I am nervous about editing /var/lib/portage/world >> directly. Is there some other, better way? >> >> >> >> -- >> Interdum feror cupidine partium magnarum Europae vincendarum >> >> Mark Haney >> Sr. Systems Administrator >> ERC Broadband >> (828) 350-2415 >> >> > > I'm not at a Gentoo machine right now, but in addition to the inputs > from Akos and Paul there is a Gentoo app (which unfortunately I don't > remember the name but is something obvious like auto-unblock, etc.) > that does auto-unblocking and adds lines to portage.unmask, > portage.keywords, etc. It puts comments around the lines it adds so > that it's easy to see what it did. sometimes you need to run it a > couple of times to get to a point where you'll get a clean install, > but it does work. > > Might be another option for you. > > hope this helps, > Mark
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