Re: [gentoo-user] a few blockers I can't figure out

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 31/08/2015 13:49, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> >> A clue is in the ebuilds for systemd:
> >> >
> >> >         sysv-utils? (
> >> >                 !sys-apps/systemd-sysv-utils
> >> >                 !sys-apps/sysvinit )
> >> >
> >> > That's a hard blocker, no way round it. It's in all the systemd ebuilds
> >> > for the current unstable versions.
> >> >
> >> > Do you have USE="sysv-utils" set for sysvinit?
> >> >
> >> > If so, to have both sysvinit and systemd, you will have to disable that
> >> > USE flag and see what comes next.
> > I put that use flag in there because I thought it would allow systemd to
> > generate a service from a script in /etc/init.d, but I will see what
> > happens when I remove that flag or maybe if there is another way to
> > accomplish that?
> > Well, that did it!  It still is downgrading systemd, but that's not too
> > bad, thanks guys.
>
> $ euses -sf sysv-utils
> sys-apps/systemd:sysv-utils - Install sysvinit compatibility symlinks
> and manpages for init, telinit, halt, poweroff, reboot, runlevel, and
> shutdown
>
>
> That description is quite vague, and could mean many things. I'm no
> expert on systemd, but I would imagine that it already has it's own
> scripts to deal with those listed functions. I wonder what the use of
> the flag is then? Perhaps an old compatibility layer than is not needed now?
>
>
> I can't see a reason why systemd is being downgraded; the previous
> output either lists just "sys-apps/systemd" or uses a ">=" operator.
> Nothing to say why 219_p112 is the highest usable version.
>
> Once the emerge finishes and portage has done what it wants, run these
> commands:
>
> emerge -pv systemd
> emerge -pv =systemd-225
>
> (225 being latest in the tree). Then we can see better why portage is
> doing what it does
>
>
>

I think it has something to do with fail2ban -- the version of systemd
in the tree after the 219 version is 224-r1 and 225 and now portage is
saying
WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
dependency conflict:
and one of those says 
  (sys-apps/systemd-225:0/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
  conflicts with^M
    sys-apps/systemd[python(-),python_targets_python2_7(-),python_single_target_python2_7(+),python_targets_python3_4(-)]
    required by (net-analyzer/fail2ban-0.9.3:0/0::gentoo, installed)
Does that make sense?

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