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Sir No
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 Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:33 pm Post subject: Small problem with updating Gnome 2.8 to 2.10 |
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After last syncing I've found that Gnome 2.10 became stable. Hooray!
But while trying to see what's gonna be upgraded I stepped on the "old packages" issue:
| Code: | # emerge -pvuD gnome
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is blocking x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.3)
[blocks B ] <app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.1.91 (is blocking app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.2.0)
[ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.0-r11 [2.05b-r9] -bashlogger -build -debug +nls 2,404 kB
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Obviously, blocked packages. I've checked the offending ebuilds and I've found nothing special! I mean, the mentioned packages were already installed in my system and they were blocking other packagess, while the same other packages stated that the very same blocking versions were completely legal. Weird.
Searching the net gave me a suggestion to deal with the first blocking by doing:
| Code: | | # emerge -C gnome-themes && emerge --oneshot gnome-themes |
In the same spirit I also did:
| Code: | | # emerge -C gnome-system-tools && emerge --oneshot gnome-system-tools |
While this worked, the second command upgraded several (I think 7) other packages. Anyway, I was able to start the main compilation and eventually upgrade Gnome to version 2.10.
However, the Gentoo wiki suggests to do:
| Code: | | # emerge --unmerge gnome-themes gnome-system-tools |
I didn't try it, but maybe it's a quicker way of getting rid of those blocks?
If someone spots the same problem, and the last solution works - please post a replay in this thread, thanks.
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southsider
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2005 10:37 pm Post subject: |
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| I used the second solution. |
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Doogman
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I had some blockers when I tried to upgrade. I just un-emerged them.
It's also a good idea to use the "-D" flag when you upgrade (emerge -Dup world) to make sure you pull-in all the new stuff. The first time I forget and didn't get everything. |
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tom56
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 9:48 am Post subject: |
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The reason emerge unmerge works as well is that the packages get pulled in again when you uprade gnome regardless.
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drwook
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2005 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| yeah, I just unmerged. At the end of the day either has the same end effect though. |
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