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On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: |
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> I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't |
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> followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little |
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> baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or |
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> something causing 16 different blocking problems. |
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> The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able |
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> solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one |
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> small part of the blocking. |
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> I've included below some long output from: |
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> emerge -vuDNpt world (to show the interdependence's) |
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> (sorry but this is some 600 lines long) |
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> Possibly some other flags to emerge would be more helpful. If so |
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> please tell me and I'll post that as well. |
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> This output seems a little overwhelming but I hope someone who is used |
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> to deciphering such output will take time to look at it and maybe see |
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> how I can get started straightening it out. |
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> First a short look at the blocking lines: |
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> ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== |
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> grep blocking outfile |
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> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" |
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> is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] |
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> x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga" is blocking |
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> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt |
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> ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) |
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> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix |
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and you need all the videodrivers? I am sure not. So remove them and set |
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VIDEO_CARDS in makec.conf. |
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> [blocks b ] sys-libs/ss ("sys-libs/ss" is blocking |
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> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) [blocks b ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs |
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> ("sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs" is blocking sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11, |
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> sys-libs/ss-1.40.11) [blocks b ] sys-libs/com_err |
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> ("sys-libs/com_err" is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) [blocks b |
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> ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 ("<sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41" is blocking |
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this has been discussed on this list SEVERAL TIMES. Search is your friend. |
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Just install the latest portage. It has a block breaking function. Then |
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upgrade e2fsprogs like described a few douzend times on this ml and in the |
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forums. Remove all the acient video drivers you don't need anyway. After that, |
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most blocks should be gone. |
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