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From: John Newman <jnn@×××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:05:21
Message-Id: 20060929145712.GA12001@ronin.webii.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 02:57:43PM +0200, Bo ?rsted Andresen wrote:
2 > On Friday 29 September 2006 14:46, John Newman wrote:
3 > [SNIP]
4 > > But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However,
5 > > when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of
6 > > "Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of
7 > > x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything.
8 >
9 > Actually it says <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 or something like that (you obviously
10 > didn't bother to show us...). You are running xorg-x11-6.8.x.
11
12 The stuff looks like this:
13
14 [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-tga-1.1.0)
15 [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-s3-0.4.1)
16 [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix-1.1.0)
17 ... etc.
18
19 You're right, I'm running 6.8. Anyway, thanks for the link to the
20 upgrade guide. I'll mess with it when I get some free time.
21
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23 john
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