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-----Original Message----- |
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From: BRM [mailto:bm_witness@×××××.com] |
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Sent: October 31, 2008 9:10 AM |
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To: Users Gentoo |
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Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22... |
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I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down |
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due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get new hardware. |
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Some things are going okay - I got it past the e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-lib |
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update fiasco (after hosing it and using GRML to get it back up). |
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However, I'm now stuck. |
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emerge world -vuDN won't complete because a package can't use "java-config", |
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complaining about python-updater needing to be run. |
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However, python-updater won't run because the of blocks due to software |
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being outdated and masked. |
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So it's a catch-22. I need to install a new java-config and other software |
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before I can get python-updater to run, but the emerge won't go through |
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without running python-updater for at least one package. |
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Any ideas on how to resolve? |
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TIA, |
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Ben |
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Try running python-updater for one package at a time and see what happens? |
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Once it gets past one or two it might not complain at you as much. |
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