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On Friday 27 December 2002 1:02 pm, Henti Smith wrote: |
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> hi there .. |
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> this is not the first time this has happened .. but when I try emerge -u |
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> system I get errors about masked packages. How can a maksed package be part |
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> of a system update ? |
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> is this not really silly ? |
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Agreed, it does seem strange... I just got this: |
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root@maya apache # emerge -up world |
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These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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Calculating world dependencies \ |
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!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-devel/perl-5.6.1-r10" have been |
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masked. |
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!!! (dependency required by "dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r4" [ebuild]) |
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Looks like the DEPEND in the MakeMaker ebuild has barfed. |
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Now, I will file a bug, and normally this all Just Works (tm), but dependency |
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nightmares for system ebuilds seems a bit of a bad thing. |
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just my 2p |
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/ben |
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