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From: brullo nulla <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pv world" output: strange differences after Portage upgrade
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2007 08:24:29
Message-Id: 93ae19410702160019l309e67c1pf34665a05d274d66@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pv world" output: strange differences after Portage upgrade by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 > > On second thought this does make sense. Portage 2.1.2 allows an upgrade
2 > > within the same slot despite the block. And the reason it doesn't get
3 > > pulled in by `emerge -pv world` is because dbus isn't in world and the
4 > > later version isn't required by anything in world. You need to use --update
5 > > to get direct dependencies upgraded or --deep to get all dependencies
6 > > upgraded to the latest version.
7 >
8 > Just to close this entirely dbus-0.62-r2 has had most of it's keywords
9 > dropped. This means if you type:
10 >
11 > # emerge -pv =sys-apps/dbus-0.62-r2
12 >
13 > you'll likely get a "masked by: missing keyword" message. So again bug #48195
14 > explains why dbus-0.62-r2 is able to satisfy dependencies on dbus because
15 > it's installed with Portage 2.1.2 but isn't able to satisfy it with Portage
16 > 2.1.1 because it's not installable. :)
17
18 Ok. Now the question is: is the new dbus really installable indeed? I
19 think "yes" from your explanation, but I want to be triple-sure.
20 (In fact, a self-blocking packages looked very odd to me, but...)
21 (and why has been 0.62-r2 been hard masked so fast?)
22
23 m.
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Re: [gentoo-user] "emerge -pv world" output: strange differences after Portage upgrade "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>