On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 7:59 AM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> Mark Haney
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>>> ERC Broadband
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>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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
>
> autounmask
>
>
Thanks Paul!
