upgrade followed by request to remove 208 packages! [Solved]

[Stupot]

When you've booted up and you see that crappy GUI, press Alt + Ctrl + F3 (or F1 or F2, you should currently be on F7). This should get you to a command prompt. Login as root.
Then:

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#equo install kde-meta

Will install all of kde and a reboot should get you back to a wonder graphical state. If you don't want everything kde-meta pulls in you can go for a more minimalistic

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#equo install kdebase-meta kdm

[Stupot]

Don't worry

as I wrote , x11-libs/qt-core was moved to new slot
All x11-libs/qt-* was moved to x11-libs/qt*

x11-libs/qt-webkit is moved to x11-libs/qtwebkit
x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns is moved to x11-libs/qtxmlpatterns

and so on

sabayonino, there is a problem with the dependencies. Please stop saying for us not to worry. If we follow the recommended removal of the packages that equo suggests, all of kde is removed. Reinstalling kde, those same removed packages are installed again and equo suggests that they should be removed.

You could very well be right that packagenames changed or packages were moved to a new slot, but this should not happen.

For anyone else running into this issue, lxnay is aware and it should be sorted out soon.

[lxnay]

I am working towards fixing this.
x11-libs/qt-declarative should have been renamed to dev-qt/qtdeclarative, same for the others.
Anybody willing to post the output of "equo update" when packages started to be renamed? (maybe you find it inside /var/log/entropy/rigo-daemon.log)

[dunsurfin]

When grub starts go down to the "advanced options" and that should give you a recovery mode. Once you have a command prompt then, as root,

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equo install entropy --relaxed

and then

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equo upgrade --ask

. I'm sorry you've had the problem. Some people didn't take it seriously.

[dunsurfin]

Anybody willing to post the output of "equo update" when packages started to be renamed? (maybe you find it inside /var/log/entropy/rigo-daemon.log)

I have my entropy log for the whole upgrade. Do you want that?

[lxnay]

Don't worry, I will try to reproduce it here.

Btw, I wonder why people blindly hit the Enter key after seeing things like "hey, I am removing the whole system! Do you agree?"

[dunsurfin]

Btw, I wonder why people blindly hit the Enter key after seeing things like "hey, I am removing the whole system! Do you agree?"

Because they trust Sabayon.

[Stupot]

When do you an equo upgrade (no --ask), and the package removal request comes up, it only prompts and asks you concerning the removal of 4 packages. Once you say, "yeah, remove them", it then goes off, calculates to remove the users kidneys and proceeds without any other questions.

Perhaps there should be another prompt asking about the package removals after calculating dependencies that is not dependent on the --ask flag?

[lxnay]

Right.

It seems that this only affected the sabayon-weekly repository users.
So, I am working on fixing this, in the meantime, the very first workaround is to switch from "sabayon-weekly" to "sabayonlinux.org", run a repository update (or "equo update"), then switch back to sabayon-weekly. You can do this easily through Rigo, in the repository management menu, just click on sabayon-weekly, then "Rename" then write "sabayonlinux.org".

[dunsurfin]

the very first workaround is to switch from "sabayon-weekly" to "sabayonlinux.org", run a repository update (or "equo update"), then switch back to sabayon-weekly. You can do this easily through Rigo, in the repository management menu, just click on sabayon-weekly, then "Rename" then write "sabayonlinux.org".

That's fixed it - thank you.