I thought I would post my experiences upgrading to Gnome-2.20 on my Gentoo box. In general, the upgrade was painless, but there were a few pitfalls that can be easily avoided.
This post was originally written on November 3rd, 2007, and most of the Gnome-2.20 packages were marked ~x86.
- Add these entries to /etc/portage/package.keywords.
[ Updated: 2007-11-14 ]
[ Updated: 2007-11-16 ] - Due to bug #196621, you will need to edit your yelp use flags in /etc/portage/package.use
gnome-extra/yelp -debug - emerge -avD '>=gnome-2.20'
[ Update: 2007-11-16 ]
Note: After performing the initial upgrade, then performing an emerge --sync at a later date, some of the package versions may have disappeared. Since all packages in the above file use absolute package versions, another attempt to do an emerge -D --with-bdeps y '>=gnome-base/gnome-2.20' could result in slot-version collisions within emerge (see bug #199359).
Lastly, I'm not sure if this will be the case for everyone, but I had to re-emerge gok, notification-daemon, gnome-applets, and gnome-python-desktop because gnome-applets was emerged in improper order, pulling in a previous gnome library. You can verify this by running revdep-rebuild -pv before re-emerging these packages.
emerge -av1 gok notification-daemon gnome-applets gnome-python-desktop
Currently, I'm not using the binary ATI drivers (ati-drivers-8.42.3), but I'll test it out and see if there are any conflicts.
Unfortunately, I would also like to upgrade to >=xorg-x11-7.3 / >=xorg-server-1.4, but ATI's current drivers for x86 will not work with >=xorg-server-1.4. Since I'm only using the open source radeon driver at the moment, I'll give that a shot before I test out ati-drivers-8.42.3.
Happy Gnome-ing :)
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