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From: Meino.Cramer@×××.de
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 13:31:07
Message-Id: 20150426133055.GA30112@solfire
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin... by Martin Vaeth
1 Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> [15-04-26 15:28]:
2 > Meino.Cramer@×××.de <Meino.Cramer@×××.de> wrote:
3 > > But the same script states:
4 > >
5 > > [I] x11-base/xorg-server
6 > > Available versions: 1.12.4-r4(0/1.12.4) [m]1.15.2-r2(0/1.15.2)
7 >
8 > The [m] means that you masked newer versions of xorg-server locally.
9 > If you remove that local mask, the blockers should be gone.
10 > Do you have a reason to keep this mask?
11 > If you must keep it, you will have to mask a lot of other packages, too,
12 > since they "want" to be upgraded but cannot, because they do not work
13 > with that ancient xorg-server.
14 >
15 >
16
17 Hi Martin,
18
19 I found that masks previously and removed them but emerge insists
20 of feeling blocked.
21
22 So I physically removed all blockers (emerge -C), update and
23 reinstalled what was not installed by the update later.
24
25 That works (finally).
26
27 Best regards,
28 Meino