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shrubbery n00b
Joined: 01 Feb 2004 Posts: 10 Location: Somewhere in deep space...
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Posted: Sat Apr 03, 2004 11:35 pm Post subject: emerging Gnome 2.6: how do I unmask it? |
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First off, is the gnome-2.6_r5 ebuild really the final? It seems that a lot of people are having problems.
Now, I notice that all of the gnome 2.6 stuff is masked. I'd like to unmask it, but I'm not so sure how to do that. Is there a command? I tried editing the .ebuild file and changed "~x86" to "x86". That seemed to do nothing. I think that I might have to unmask every package listed in the ebuild file, but that seems like a pain. Is there an easier way?
Also, will emerging 2.6 over top of 2.4 cause any problems? I know that I'll probably have to delete everything gnome related that's in my home directory, but that's not really a problem.
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sharky44 n00b
Joined: 13 Jul 2002 Posts: 48 Location: USA
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 12:43 am Post subject: |
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Do an 'emerge sync' because gnome 2.6 is in the portage tree now according to http://packages.gentoo.org/. To emerge it, you'll probably have to edit /usr/portage/profile/package.mask and either delete or comment all of the gnome 2.6 stuff. Then you can do Code: | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge gnome |
Emerging 2.6 will automatically unmerge 2.4. It does a pretty good job of "upgrading" and most all of your settings from 2.4 will remain in 2.6.
Hope this helps |
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ecatmur Advocate
Joined: 20 Oct 2003 Posts: 3595 Location: Edinburgh
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 2:09 am Post subject: |
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Wrong. Changes to /usr/portage are overwritten. Instead copy the masking to /etc/portage/package.unmask. |
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sog Guru
Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 8:37 pm Post subject: does unmask really work? |
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i followed the instructions provided for unmasking and emerging, i.e. i did the following:
emerge sync
cped "GNOME 2.6 mask" bit to /usr/portage/package.unmask
emerge -uP world
went through, got few errors (tho i creamed some of my config files, including FSTAB and a few others), but basically it said it was emerged properly.
after a reboot, i'm still getting 2.4. what gives? it works fine, thankfully, but where's 2.6? |
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Vann Guru
Joined: 04 Aug 2002 Posts: 357
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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There's no need to mess with package.mask or anything else. Gnome 2.6 final has been masked with ~x86, so ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" works fine. I know; I'm using Gnome 2.6 right now. |
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sog Guru
Joined: 04 Apr 2004 Posts: 356
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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not following you here, Vann, probably cause i'm such a n00b.
how exactly did you get 2.6 installed? any idea where i went wrong? |
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Malcolm n00b
Joined: 11 Jul 2002 Posts: 59 Location: Ontario, Canada
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Posted: Sun Apr 04, 2004 11:33 pm Post subject: |
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Try something like: Code: | ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge /usr/portage/gnome-base/gnome/gnome-2.6.ebuild -pv |
That should show some packages |
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