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From: Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:30:59
Message-Id: 3517373.ctZ3c57aFk@bluering
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems by Neil Bothwick
1 On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:05:27 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote:
3 > > emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y
4 > > @world
5 > >
6 > > * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
7 > > * Use eselect news read to view new items.
8 > >
9 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
10 > >
11 > > Calculating dependencies... done!
12 > >
13 > > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
14 > > pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
15 > >
16 > > dev-libs/boost:0
17 > >
18 > > (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
19 > >
20 > > merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages
21 > > in this slot)
22 > >
23 > > (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
24 > >
25 > > merge) pulled in by dev-libs/boost:0/1.55.0= required by
26 > > (dev-libs/librevenge-0.0.2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
27 > > ^^^^^^^^^^ (and 2 more with the same problem)
28 > >
29 > > dev-util/boost-build:0
30 > >
31 > > (dev-util/boost-build-1.55.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
32 > >
33 > > =dev-util/boost-build-1.55* required by
34 > >
35 > > (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
36 > > ^
37 > > ^^^^^
38 > >
39 > > (dev-util/boost-build-1.56.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
40 > >
41 > > pulled in by =dev-util/boost-build-1.56* required by
42 > > (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
43 > > ^
44 > > ^^^^^
45 > >
46 > > media-video/ffmpeg:0
47 > >
48 > > (media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3:0/54.56.56::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
49 > >
50 > > merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages
51 > > in this slot)
52 > >
53 > > (media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14:0/52.55.55::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
54 > >
55 > > media-video/ffmpeg:0/52.55.55=[vdpau] required by
56 > >
57 > > (media-libs/mlt-0.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
58 > > ^^^^^^^^^^^
59 >
60 > These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not
61 > updating some packages to the latest available and why. Personally, I
62 > believe this sort of output should only be shown when using --verbose.
63
64
65 There is an open bug/feature request for portage to be able to drop all these
66 blocked/blocking packages (and their dependencies) and continue installing all
67 the unaffected packages.
68
69 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476350
70
71
72 --
73 Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/
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