Re: [gentoo-user] strange dependency conflict

[wabe]

Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote:

> On 2017-01-15 11:28 AM, wabe wrote:
>
> > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I
> > update my system:
> >
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
> >
> > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
> > dependency conflict:
> >
> > app-text/xmlto:0
> >
> >    (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> > merge) conflicts with
> >      >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by
> >      >(x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> >                                         >
> >
> > Nothing to merge; quitting.
> >
> >
> > I don't understand this because these versions are already
> > installed on my system:
> >
> > [I] app-text/xmlto
> >       Available versions:  0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text}
> >       Installed versions:  0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text
> > -latex)
> >
> > [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils
> >       Available versions:  1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc
> > +perl} Installed versions:  1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc
> > perl)
> >
> >
> >
> > How can a package conflict with itself (same version)?
> >
> > --
> > Regards
> > wabe
> >
>
>  From what I can tell it's telling you that the xmlto package is too
> old. xdg-utils needs a newer version, and I suspect that it's marked
> unstable. If you unmask a newer version of xmlto the error will go
> away.

That was also my first thought. But then I noticed the "greater or 
equal" sign ">=". According to that, the installed version should 
be sufficient.

And I also expect that a stable package doesn't depend on an unstable 
(~amd64) one.

However you are right. Unmasking xmlto resolved the conflict.

Thanks for the hint.

--
Regards
wabe