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From: nunojsilva@×××××××.pt
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: sneak peek at next update.
Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2019 12:11:33
Message-Id: qnsft0$2qul$1@blaine.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sneak peek at next update. by Neil Bothwick
1 On 2019-10-12, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2
3 > On Sat, 12 Oct 2019 02:14:51 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
4 >
5 >> right now the next update is looking **BAD**:
6 >>
7 >>
8 >>
9 >> tortoise ~ # emerge --update --verbose portage --backtrack=30
10 >> --verbose-conflicts --pretend
11 >
12 > What are you emerging here, @system or @world?
13
14 portage
15
16 Alan, what if you try updating gentoolkit and portage at the same time?
17
18 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
19 >>
20 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
21 >> [ebuild???????? U?? ] sys-apps/portage-2.3.76::gentoo [2.3.65::gentoo]
22 >> USE="(ipc) native-extensions rsync-verify xattr -build -doc -epydoc
23 >> -gentoo-dev (-selinux)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_6 python3_7
24 >> -pypy -python3_5" 1,010 KiB
25 >> [blocks B?????????? ] <app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6
26 >> ("<app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6" is blocking sys-apps/portage-2.3.76)
27 >
28 > Unmerge gentoolkit, then install the later version after portage if
29 > updated.
30
31 I don't think it's necessary to unmerge, just to update. I might be
32 wrong, but I believe the reason why portage isn't solving this block by
33 itself is because it was told to update portage only.
34
35 --
36 Nuno Silva

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