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Pete Pardoe wrote: |
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> I tried to move to moidular X but it failed so I roled everything back |
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> but I |
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> now have a problem that has me stumped. |
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You filed a bug for the failure, right? Monolithic X won't be around |
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forever ... |
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> When I do an emerge -puD world |
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> there are a whole slew of packages that are blocked by a non existant |
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> package. I have xorg-x11 6.8.2-r8 installed not 6.9 but get the following |
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> in front of all the blocked packages. How do I convince the system that it |
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> doesn't have this package installed. |
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> |
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> <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking |
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> I have tried emerge --clean x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and emerge --prune |
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> x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 and they both tell me that the package is not there. |
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> I have done a revdep-rebuild and an emerge --newuse --update --deep world |
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> and nothing has fixed it. |
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You may not realize "<=" means "less than or equal to," so your 6.8 |
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installation would qualify. |
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If you want Gentoo to stop asking you to upgrade to the current stable |
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modular X every time you 'emerge world' then you may want to add |
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'>=x11-base/xorg-x11-7' to /etc/portage/package.mask. |
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Thanks, |
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Donnie |
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