Re: [gentoo-dev] ncurses-5.9 -> ncurses-6.0 step-by-step?

[Mike Frysinger]

On 14 Dec 2015 02:14, Joshua Kinard wrote:
> I might've missed it, but do we have a step-by-step procedure to take a rootfs
> that uses ncurses-5.9 and upgrade it to ncurses-6.0 WITHOUT breaking anything?
>  I, like others, ran into the problem of emerge yanking libncurses.so.5 libs
> out when upgrading to ncurses-6.0, which broke bash and a few other packages.

portage should preserve needed libraries.  if it doesn't, file a bug.
-mike


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[gentoo-dev] ncurses-5.9 -> ncurses-6.0 step-by-step?

[Joshua Kinard]

I might've missed it, but do we have a step-by-step procedure to take a rootfs
that uses ncurses-5.9 and upgrade it to ncurses-6.0 WITHOUT breaking anything?
 I, like others, ran into the problem of emerge yanking libncurses.so.5 libs
out when upgrading to ncurses-6.0, which broke bash and a few other packages.
Took some kludging but I got that fixed on my primary systems.

However I have a few chroots that need to be refreshed for catalyst runs, and I
would like to just automate the ncurses upgrade for them somehow.  I know
there's a few nucrses metapackages in the tree that facilitate this, but the
-rX numbers make it confusing as to which packages need to be merged in which
order (without causing blocks) so that the libncurses.so.[56] libs stay in
place until an 'emerge @preserved-libs' run can rebuild the packages that still
link against the old libncurses.so.5.

Thanks!,

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Joshua Kinard
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