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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 17:01:50
Message-Id: 20160919170139.GA1316@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict by Neil Bothwick
1 160919 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 18 Sep 2016 19:53:10 -0400, Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> I got around the problem by using :
4 >> emerge --backtrack=30 -pvtD perl perl-Archive-Tar perl-Carp
5 >> perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements perl-Data-Dumper
6 >> perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder perl-ExtUtils-Install perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker
7 >> perl-ExtUtils-Manifest perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS perl-File-Spec
8 >> perl-Getopt-Long perl-IO perl-Locale-Maketext perl-Perl-OSType
9 >> perl-Scalar-List-Utils perl-Test-Harness perl-Text-ParseWords
10 > I'm surprised you needed to jump through such hoops.
11 > I updated 2 stable systems to perl 5.22 last week
12 > and emerge @world took care of all blockers,
13 > although I did need to run perl-cleaner afterwards.
14
15 I never run 'emerge world' without '-p' :
16 it's the lazy way to manage a Gentoo system & asks for trouble.
17
18 >> Perl can stay where it is till LO 5.2 arrives in Portage :
19 >> in fact, isn't it a bit slow appearing ?
20 > 5.2.1.2 has been in testing for a couple of days,
21 > but it appears that 5.1.4.2 is the only ebuild in stable,
22 > so that may be the reason for your downgrade.
23
24 Actually, it wb an upgrade from 5.1.2.2 .
25
26 Anyway, the problem is resolved & I can decide when/how to proceed.
27
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge conflict Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>