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C. Beamer schreef: |
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> Rumen Yotov wrote: |
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>> On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 19:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: |
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>>> Hi, |
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>>> I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month |
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>>> now and want to update world. |
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>>> |
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>>> When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told |
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>>> that a package that I had installed was blocking another package. |
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>>> I want to update but omit the blocked package from the update, |
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>>> which incidentally is not installed on my system. |
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>>> |
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>>> Regards, |
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>>> |
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>>> Colleen |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>> Hi, Think it mostly depends on which is the package in question. |
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>> Seen three types of package blocking: 1.a new version blocking the |
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>> old version of the same package - remove it then add again; 2.A new |
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>> package wants to install but there is another package serving the |
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>> same role, e.g mail-server: qmail, postfix, exim all provide - |
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>> virtual/mta (IIRC), so only one could get installed; 3.Think it's |
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>> your case. Some other package (which is installed) has a *new* |
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>> dependency on another one (not installed), which provides the same |
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>> 'virtual/...' as third one (installed). This could happen when |
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>> using -D/--deep flag - try without it to check and use -t/-tree |
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>> option to see the deps. But it depends on the package in question & |
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>> friends. HTH.Rumen |
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> I went to the painstaking effort of updating each package on my |
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> system that required updating individually and am left with this, |
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> which is the result of 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world': |
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> Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] |
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> <mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 (is blocking net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g) |
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> [ebuild N ] net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g [ebuild U ] |
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> mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 [4.63-r2] |
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>> From this, I assume that the installed package, Pine, is blocking |
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>> the |
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> package nw-mail-utils-2004g, which is *not* installed. So, how do I |
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> prevent uw-mailutils-2004g from being installed so I can update Pine? |
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> Regards, |
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> Colleen |
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You can't-- this is a normal block: |
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(from http://www.gentoo-portage.com ) |
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Runtime Dependencies |
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pine-4.64-r1 |
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! net-mail/uw-imap - 2004g |
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>= sys-apps/sed - 4 |
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>= sys-libs/ncurses - 5.1 |
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ldap net-nds/openldap |
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pam >= sys-libs/pam - 0.72 |
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ssl dev-libs/openssl |
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app-misc/mimetypes |
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==> net-mail/uwmailutils |
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virtual/libc |
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kerberos app-crypt/mitkrb5 |
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The problem here is that 1) uwmailutils is a new dependency of Pine; 2) |
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dependencies must be installed before the program that depend on them |
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(just like you have to build the walls of your house before you put the |
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roof on, as the roof depends on the walls to hold it up); and 3) pine is |
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already installed (thus the program that depends on uwmailutils is |
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installed before what it depends on is installed, since Portage only |
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removes the previously installed version *after* the new version is |
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installed, which it can't be because its dependency can't be installed, |
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because the program that requires the dependency must be installed to |
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remove the currently-installed version). |
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If you see what I mean. |
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Remove (unemerge) Pine, then merge the updated version, so the |
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dependencies will be installed prior to the program they depend on. |
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HTH, |
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Holly |
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