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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Large update blocked
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:51:24
Message-Id: 9acccfe50910061951s20bd09f0t29c672f25b740b99@mail.gmail.com
1 I may put this off until Xmas break (I cannot afford to wedge this system
2 right now), but I'm worried by the results of an emerge --pretend:
3
4 It looks like 20 packages or so want eselect-1.2.3, but it's blocked by
5 eselect-news which is required by world.
6
7 Is there a sane way through this update? Details below.
8
9 ++ kevin
10
11
12 [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-news ("app-admin/eselect-news" is blocking
13 app-admin/eselect-1.2.3)
14
15 Total: 61 packages (56 upgrades, 5 new), Size of downloads: 41,445 kB
16 Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
17
18 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
19 * installed at the same time on the same system.
20
21 ('ebuild', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-1.2.3', 'merge') pulled in by
22 >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.2 required by ('installed', '/',
23 'app-admin/eselect-python-20090824', 'nomerge')
24 >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.10 required by ('installed', '/',
25 'app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3', 'nomerge')
26 app-admin/eselect required by ('installed', '/',
27 'app-office/openoffice-3.1.1', 'nomerge')
28 (and 18 more)
29
30 ('installed', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-news-20080320', 'nomerge') pulled in
31 by
32 app-admin/eselect-news required by world
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35 For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
36 section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
37
38 http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
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42 --
43 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Large update blocked David Relson <relson@×××××××××××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Large update blocked Frank Steinmetzger <Warp_7@×××.de>