On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote: [SNIP] > But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However, > when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of > "Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything.
Actually it says <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 or something like that (you obviously didn't bother to show us...). You are running xorg-x11-6.8.x. > I was thinking that > emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade - > that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went > along. Nope. > Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 > (and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it, > naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I > believe?). Or is there a better way? I believe the upgrade guide should suffice [1]. And yes, it does tell you to unmerge the old xorg-x11. Just follow that guide and you should be fine... [1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml -- Bo Andresen
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