Re: [gentoo-user] unclear (to me) errors from portage

J. Roeleveld <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:

> On Thursday, August 07, 2014 11:33:34 PM gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
> > I was away for two weeks and now one of my systems cannot be updated due
> > to  conflicts.  The entire (long) emerge output is at the end of
> > this msg.
> >
> >
> > ------------------  The first conflict is -------------------
>
> <snipped long list of conflicts>
>
> I notice a few perl blockers.
> You could try the following:
>
> # emerge -vuD1 $(qlist -IC 'virtual/perl-*')
> # perl-cleaner --all -v -- -v
>
> And then retry to update world.
> I've been encountering some perl blockages myself, and this cleared it up for
> me.
If I encounter an update of Perl like that, I always do it first and do
the perl-cleaner thing before anything else.  Otherwise portage will
crap out soon after the perl update is done because it seems to
automatically use the newer version before perl-cleaner is run.


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