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From: Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2017 19:56:02
Message-Id: 65797e0a-58bc-fd17-bed7-70fa1917df9f@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict by wabe
1 On 2017-01-15 11:28 AM, wabe wrote:
2
3 > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I
4 > update my system:
5 >
6 >
7 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8 >
9 > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 >
11 > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
12 >
13 > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
14 >
15 > app-text/xmlto:0
16 >
17 > (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with
18 > >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by (x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
19 >
20 >
21 >
22 > Nothing to merge; quitting.
23 >
24 >
25 > I don't understand this because these versions are already installed on
26 > my system:
27 >
28 > [I] app-text/xmlto
29 > Available versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text}
30 > Installed versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text -latex)
31 >
32 > [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils
33 > Available versions: 1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc +perl}
34 > Installed versions: 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc perl)
35 >
36 >
37 >
38 > How can a package conflict with itself (same version)?
39 >
40 > --
41 > Regards
42 > wabe
43 >
44
45 From what I can tell it's telling you that the xmlto package is too
46 old. xdg-utils needs a newer version, and I suspect that it's marked
47 unstable. If you unmask a newer version of xmlto the error will go away.
48
49 Dan

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