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On Mon, 9 Jun 2014 18:43:04 +0000 |
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Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello, Rick, thanks for the reply. |
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> [... cut all the emerge output, quotes and text in between ...] |
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> What the heck is going on, when a package management system can't even |
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> make a decision on which version of perl to use, and stick to that |
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> decision? And it can only be described as a bug, that the |
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> gobbledegook "(no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in |
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> this slot)" passes for a supposedly informative message. |
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> Anyhow, thanks indeed for the help. Maybe, someday in the distant |
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> future, I'll succeed in updating my Gentoo system after all. |
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To start with, please avoid using -p (--pretend); sometimes emerge will |
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continue regardless of what is displayed, which can help you forward. |
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Though, that still might imply that you need to resolve that output. |
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A very first thing you'll notice is that the Perl conflict seems to |
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suggest that there is an old Perl version installed and a new Perl |
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version scheduled to be merged. |
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When you do a merge of an individual package, it won't consider the |
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reverse dependencies of Perl and therefore it will result in a conflict |
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instead of upgrading the reverse dependencies of Perl. |
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A solution to this is to upgrade your entire system (@world) such that |
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your entire system is in a consistent and upgraded state; however, this |
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only is a way forward as long as it doesn't bring up a conflict. |
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So ... In order to proceed here, you have to unmerge sys-power/upower |
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(which you've already done) and mask sys-power/upower as well as |
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sys-apps/systemd (yet to do), then an `emerge -auvDNt @world` should |
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help you forward; if not, its output can help you bring it forward. |
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If there is a mention about backtracking, try --backtrack=9001 or so; |
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also, if it still tries to bring in sys-power/upower then you might |
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have an overlay that attempts to do this (sync and/or contact author). |
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As a result of the unmerge and mask, it picks upower-pm-utils for you. |
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> Have a great evening! |
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You too. |
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With kind regards, |
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Tom Wijsman (TomWij) |
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Gentoo Developer |
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E-mail address : TomWij@g.o |
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