Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix circular dependency?

[Dale]

Ajai Khattri wrote:
>
> This box hasn't been updated in awhile:
>
> # emerge -uDtav1k portage
>
>  * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>  * Use eselect news to read news items.
>
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
>
> [nomerge      ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.8.3 [2.1.6.4] USE="-python3%"
> [nomerge      ]  dev-lang/python-2.6.5-r3 [2.4.4-r14, 2.5.2-r7]
> USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl threads (wide-unicode) xml
> -build -doc -examples -sqlite -tk -wininst"
> [nomerge      ]   app-admin/eselect-python-20100321
> [nomerge      ]    sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2 [4.1.2] USE="mudflap nptl
> openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj
> -graphite -gtk (-hardened) (-libffi) (-multilib) -multislot (-n32)
> (-n64) -nls -nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla"
> [ebuild     U ]     sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2 [2.6.1] USE="-gd% -vanilla%"
> [ebuild  NS   ]      sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2 [4.1.2] USE="mudflap nptl
> openmp (-altivec) -bootstrap -build -doc (-fixed-point) -fortran -gcj
> -graphite -gtk (-hardened) (-libffi) (-multilib) -multislot (-n32)
> (-n64) -nls -nocxx -objc -objc++ -objc-gc -test -vanilla"
>
>  * Error: circular dependencies:
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2', 'merge') depends on
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2', 'merge') (hard)
> ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-devel/gcc-4.4.3-r2', 'merge') depends on
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-libs/glibc-2.11.2', 'merge') (hard)
>
>  * Note that circular dependencies can often be avoided by temporarily
>  * disabling USE flags that trigger optional dependencies.
>
>

Try this:

emerge -1av =*glibc*-2.10.1-r1

Then try to finish the upgrade.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)