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ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,730

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Preventing KDE 4.6 upgrade

It seems to me that KDE 4.6 is not yet ready for prime time, judging from the posts in the forums;  so I decided to block the upgrade but I'm having some problems with that.
I've added :

IgnorePkg   = kernel26 kde kdevelop libgl pyqt kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde
IgnoreGroup = kde kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde

So if I understand how things work, all KDE group packages should be blocked but that's not the case. The kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde insists in being upgraded but fails because I supposedly do not have pyqt (which I do have BTW) as per this error:

error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies)
:: kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde: requires pyqt

so ... what gives here?

Any ideas?

Thanks.

R

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Preventing KDE 4.6 upgrade

There's a python2-qt package now, replacing pyqt. Probably it wants to get installed, but kdeadmin-system-config-printer-kde still wants pyqt.

SS4

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From: !Rochford, Essex

Registered: 2010-12-05

Posts: 699

Re: Preventing KDE 4.6 upgrade

I concur, of course you could use abs to change the PKGBUILD from pyqt to python2-qt

I know what you mean about KDE 4.6, I seem to the only person with a working install

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ilpianista

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Registered: 2007-10-06

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Re: Preventing KDE 4.6 upgrade

Are you ready to rebuild kdebase-workspace with the new cln? And kdebindings-* about with the new versions of pyqt? (And to fix the build errors?) Also, I'm not sure that polkit 0.99.x works with KDE 4.5. For sure, akonadi 1.5 doesn't.

My suggestion: if you really want to keep KDE 4.5.5, do not upgrade Arch for a month.

neowolf

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From: North Carolina

Registered: 2008-01-27

Posts: 105

Re: Preventing KDE 4.6 upgrade

I know what you mean about KDE 4.6, I seem to the only person with a working install

Running better than 4.5 did here!

ralvez

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From: Canada

Registered: 2005-12-06

Posts: 1,730

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Re: Preventing KDE 4.6 upgrade

Thank you all for the replies !!

@bash: Nope I'm not prepared to do that I need a stable system ( I use it for development ) and cannot afford messing with it. I think I'll just wait...

I'm just mystified that although I set KDE not to be upgraded it wants to upgrade part of it ignoring my pacman.conf setup.

Guess that's life.

Thanks you all again.

R.