Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiñski wrote:
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.17-r1  0 kB
> [blocks B     ] >=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking
> app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.5.80187)
>
> Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>
> !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> installed
> !!!        at the same time on the same system.
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
> irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>
>
> What is that block? This should be installed? What is done with
> portage, that blocks exists when I try to install software that is
> part of other package (and higher package depend on it)?

Maybe you don't understand what blockers are and how they work - go read 
the referenced page in the Gentoo manual. What is happening is quite 
simple:

On a code level, or file-collision level, you cannot have a version of 
vmware-modules greater than or equal to 1.0.0.16 on a machine that 
already has vmware-server-1.0.5.80187 installed.

But this is precisely what you are trying to do, it's a side effect of 
running ~arch in this case. The vmware-server ebuild has this inside:

RDEPEND="
        ~app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15
        !<app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15
        !>=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16
"

For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only 
version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to:

cd /etc/portage
echo ">=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16" >> package.use
emerge -avuND world

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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