Comments on: gentoo ~testing, clean install, qt, kde 4, blocks, HELP! [fixed]

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 14:04:04 +0000

That seemed to do the trick–now emerge -uavND does not report the x11-libs/qt-* blocks.

Thanks!

By: wired

wired — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:56:48 +0000

Please remove it, its a meta package you don’t need any more

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:18:20 +0000

I’m still having the problem when I run emerge -uavND world, despite following all the suggestions in this thread.

I see that x11-libs/qt-4.5.1 is masked, yet I still have it installed. Is that causing the problem? Should I uninstall it?

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:56:29 +0000

It’s not working for me. I did a full revdep-rebuild and emerge -uavN world–all clean (nothing to be updated or installed). But if I run emerge -uavND, then I get 12 unsatisfied blocks (capital B). I have this in package.use:
x11-libs/qt-webkit kde
x11-libs/qt-qt3support kde
x11-libs/qt-core qt3support
x11-libs/qt-gui qt3support
x11-libs/qt-sql qt3support mysql
x11-libs/qt-opengl qt3support

I have qt3support and dbus in make.conf.

I’ve posted the result of emerge -uavND world here: http://dpaste.com/115661/

Any suggestions?

By: miroR

miroR — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 21:04:42 +0000

Sure I did things right! I’ve been getting advanced user since years! (grin here).
It did all go Oll Korrect.
And, thanx fo the advice! Sounds credible! I will most likely stay away from Paludis.
So you’re still pinning your hopes on the orthodox Gentoo trunk?
Useful site, BTW. Thanx,Wired, for bailing me out with the info I found here (grin)!

By: wired

wired — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:36:23 +0000

“b” blocks (small b) are not a critical error, they are normal. They are blocks that portage found but managed to solve automatically (thats why it emerged the updates in the end). If you only get “b” blocks you did things right and have nothing to worry about.

Paludis can’t handle these blocks at all, you have to tell it to ignore dependencies to ever update Qt, I recommend staying away from it, Gentoo is evolving around portage

By: wired

wired — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:33:00 +0000

You must update Qt with something like “emerge -avDuN world”. If an emerge command tries to update only half the Qt packages, it will fail will B blocks.

By: miroR

miroR — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:25:59 +0000

Now there are only 17.
[blocks b ] >x11-libs/qt- â€¦ (17 blocks like these…)
As I installed the packages, I issued on other console:
emerge -pv1 `eix -I â€“only-names x11-libs/qt-`
and things seem to be getting sorted…
I mean, updated x11-libs/qt-* packages removed those blocks.
Just the:
x11-libs/qt-gui-4.5.3-r1 when it installed removed 6 of the blocks…

Oh, anyone knows where to look for, or a site on the topic, or a forum thread somewhere, for
the qualms that I posted above on Gentoo, Paludis prospects or other options?

By: miroR

miroR — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:44:13 +0000

Means it worked for you?
Any more news on this issue?
I am right now compiling:
emerge -av1 `eix -I –only-names x11-libs/qt-`
It shows:
[blocks b ] >x11-libs/qt- … (24 kinds of blocks with this same beginning)
but it is compiling quite a number of packages (I didn’t update for some months now).
I’ll tell you if I make it, or it anyone has an idea what to try if this turns to be a no go…
I don’t like debian because I want to stick with bash command line…
I am past those commercial distros like Suse and Fedora…
And if I try Paludis for Gentoo, is Paludis capable of recovering Gentoo out of miserable no-compile messes like this one? What is the prospect?
I am not a programmer, just an intermediate level user… No time to delve in high brow articles like Patrick’s mentioned above…

By: Luftzig

Luftzig — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:03:25 +0000

That haven’t helped me either. emerge’s output is here: http://dpaste.com/106108/