Can't upgrade to profile 23.0 lots of blocks and conflicts

[zo.]

Hello there, I am having issues with upgrading my profile from 17.0 to 23.0, I have been running into so many blocks and conflicts. Which I have been unable to reslove or narrow down the issue to fix it. Any help would be very much appriecated. Also couldn't paste my code here so the best I could do was place it in pastebin
https://pastebin.com/0gA5BN33
Cheers, zo.

[sam_]

Please follow the KDE Plasma news item. You will also need to emerge --deselect some junk from your world file, like emerge --deselect dev-qt/qtxmlpattern.

Please also share full output of the following once you've done that: emerge -p -uvDU @world and emerge -pev @world --backtrack=0 (for diagnostic purposes only).

[zo.]

Thanks for the quick reply,
I gave --deselecting of kde plasma packages a go. on packages that it was complaining about.

here are the outputs of "-pev @world --backtrack=0"
https://pastebin.com/Smm3kj73

now it's just a long list of stuff.
then I deselected imagemagick cause it was listed as a conflict.

outputs of "emerge -p -uvDU @world"
https://pastebin.com/NrF4VXcP

still have issues and blocks.

[bstaletic]

I can see three conflicts:

1. virtual/dist-kernel
   
   
   
   • Version 6.6.58 is being pulled in by sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.6.58-r2:6.6.58/6.6.58::gentoo
     
   • Version 6.6.58-r1 is scheduled for merge.
     
   • Version 6.6.28 is being pulled in by media-video/v4l2loopback-0.13.1:0/0::gentoo
     
   
   
2. xorg-server
   
   
   
   • Version 21.1.14:0/21.1.14 is scheduled for merge.
     
   • Version 21.1.13:0/21.1.13 is pulled in by x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-1.4.0:0/0
     
   
   
3. dev-lang/perl
   
   
   
   • Version .5.40.0:0/5.40 is scheduled for merge.
     
   • Version 5.38.2:0/5.38 is pulled in by dev-perl/Try-Tiny-0.310.0:0/0
     
   • Version 5.8.8 (!!!) is pulled in by media-gfx/imagemagick-7.1.1.11:0/7.1.1-43
     
   
   

However, then portage proceeds to tell you that those could be resolved with a rebuild, except for that imagemagick, whose ebuild is no longer in the portage tree.
Is your world file clean? Can you post it?
Though it's probably easiest to go back to the 17.1 profile, update the system and then retry 23.0, as was suggested in the news item.

[sam_]