How to switch smoothly to kdelibs4?

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Wed Aug 25 14:06:17 PDT 2010


On Aug 25, 2010, at 11:44 AM, Scott Webster wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Marko Käning <MK- 
> MacPorts at techno.ms> wrote:
>>> In other words, why do you seem to want to end up with a kde4  
>>> version
>>> of kmymoney but with kde3 stuff activated?
>> No, I don't need the kde3 stuff eventually, it's just meant as a  
>> fallback possibility during the transition period.
>> I would leave kde3 stuff deactivated as long as I try to get  
>> everything setup and reactivate it only in case of need. Of course  
>> I would dump the whole kde3 stuff once I got everything up and  
>> running on kde4.
>> _______________________________________________
>
> Cool.  My understanding is that as as long as you keep the old
> versions installed and just deactivated that you can go back to them
> without problems, so I think this would work, but I'm a little new
> around here.


Nice feature but I think you need to keep an eye on versions of deps.  
I don't know that "port deactivate kde4 && port activate kde3" would  
revert kde3 deps that may have been upgraded to an unusable version.

Maybe keeping track of what was installed prior to upgrading could be  
useful.

port -q rdeps --no-build kdelibs3 | sed -e 's/^[[:space:]]*//' | sort  
| xargs port -q installed >> rdeps_kdelibs3.txt.

// Brad



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