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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:05:30
Message-Id: tkrat.f4842c7df9389456@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts by Neil Bothwick
1 On 17 Oct, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:46:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >
4 >> E.g. here is the complete output of
5 >> emerge --tree --update --deep --pretend world
6 >>
7 >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
8 >>
9 >> Calculating dependencies ... done!
10 >>
11 >> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
12 >> ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0" have been masked. !!! One of
13 >> the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
14 >> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.6.0-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
15 >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
16 >> # Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> (24 Jan 2008)
17 >> # add masked gnome-system-tools-2.20 and dependencies
18 >> # for testing purpose
19 >>
20 >> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.4.2 (masked by: package.mask)
21 >> - app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
22 >> /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
23 >> # Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> (12 Apr 2008)
24 >> # Masking gnome-system-tools because it is broken,
25 >> # to help fix it, see bug #214265
26 >>
27 >
28 > emerge normally tells you the package that requires the masked
29 > dependency. Does adding --verbose give any more detail?
30 >
31 > Do you have anything in /etc/portage/package.unmask that may affect this?
32 > If not, you have found a bug in the tree, because non-masked packages
33 > shouldn't depend on masked ones.
34 >
35 >
36
37 Thanks, --verbose did the trick.
38 There was gnome-system-tools installed.
39 After unmerging it, this problem was solved.
40
41 --
42 Helmut Jarausch
43
44 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
45 RWTH - Aachen University
46 D 52056 Aachen, Germany