On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:58:58 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected >> by this upgrade :-) > > I had some breakage, but nothing significant. I only realised anything > was wrong because emerge @preserved-rebuild failed on most packages, so I > then RTFMed, ran the commands from that web page and all was fine. > Konqueror kept working fine, so I didn't need to remember how to work any > of the lynx variants. >
You must be very lucky to have such a fast machine. I'm following the recipe on http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml which results in emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xcb-proto x11-libs/libxcb emerge -v1 -j4 x11-proto/xproto x11-proto/xextproto x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext /usr/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh emerge -1 -j4 \ $(for i in x11-proto/ x11-libs/libxcb x11-libs/libX11 x11-libs/libXext \ x11-libs/libX x11-libs/xcb-util x11-libs/cairo \ x11-libs/pango x11-libs/gtk+ gnome-base/libgnomeui \ x11-libs/qt-gui; do \ qlist -IC $i; \ done) -v revdep-rebuild -L libxcb-xlib.so.0 -- -j4 --ask --keep-going This requires to rebuild 182 packages and proably several hours on a modern PC (Phenom II 4 cores) (this includes some not so tiny packages like gcc (2 slots) several gnome and kde libraries) (Sometimes, Gentoo is an expensive hobby) Helmut. -- Helmut Jarausch Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik RWTH - Aachen University D 52056 Aachen, Germany
