Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package... How do I fix it?

[Holly Bostick]

Jules Colding schreef:
> Hi,
>
> My daily update has run into a blocking package. How do I best resolve
> this?
>
> Thanks,
>   jules
>
>
> ################ snip ##################
> omc-2 ~ # emerge -vauDN world
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] =x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 (is blocking x11-libs/motif-config-0.9)
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r-r1 [2.12r] +crypt +nls -old-crypt +pam +perl (-selinux) -static 0 kB
> [ebuild  NS   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.14-r5  -build -doc +symlink (-ultra1) 181 kB
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.2.0-r1 [2.1.11-r5] 286 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9  0 kB
> [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [2.2.3-r3] 0 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/jbigkit-1.4  318 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/jasper-1.701.0  +jpeg +opengl 1,329 kB
> [ebuild  N    ] media-libs/urt-3.1b-r1  +X +gif -gs +tiff 992 kB
> [ebuild     U ] media-libs/netpbm-10.30-r1 [10.29] +jpeg +png (-svga) +tiff +zlib 2,542 kB
> [ebuild     U ] www-client/links-2.1_pre19 [2.1_pre18] +X -directfb +fbcon -gpm -javascript +jpeg -livecd +png +ssl (-svga) +tiff +unicode 3,754 kB
> [ebuild     U ] media-libs/xvid-1.0.3 [1.0.2] -doc 529 kB
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/less-385_p4-r2 [382-r2] +unicode 482 kB
>
> Total size of downloads: 10,417 kB
>
> !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
> !!!        on the same system.
>

The normal way to fix a block is to unmerge the blocking package (in
this case openmotif), then run the emerge again.

motif-config apparently replaces openmotif (from www.gentoo-portage.com)

Runtime Dependencies
motif-config-0.9

    app-shells/bash
    ! x11-libs/lesstif - 0.94.0*
    ! x11-libs/lesstif - 0.93.97
    ! x11-libs/lesstif - 0.93.94-r4
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3-r6
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3-r5
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3-r4
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3-r3
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3-r2
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3-r1
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.3
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.2.2*
    ! x11-libs/openmotif - 2.1.30-r13

unlike the previous versions which only depended on bash, this version
demands that openmotif not be present on the system.

As Ryan said, the procedure is to unmerge openmotif and then run the
emerge again to install motif-config, but I myself would investigate
before doing this whether or not I wanted or needed motif-config at all,
and whether it would support the needs I had up to this point used
openmotif for.

A block can also be solved by not requesting one of the packages at all,
because it turns out to be unnecessary.

Holly

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