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From: John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:25:07
Message-Id: 18456.22283.70642.189801@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior by Alan McKinnon
1 on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@×××××.com) wrote
2 > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote:
3 > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and
4 > > got the following strange message:
5 > > [blocks B ] <gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking
6 > > dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1)
7 > >
8 > > Now I have neither of these on my system, so what is the matter -- is
9 > > portage insane? I think I have a couple of more like that as well.
10 >
11 > Do you mean that you don't have these packages installed, or that they
12 > are not even in portage? For the second case, re-sync. For the first
13 > case, you need to find out what is pulling those packages in, and make
14 > the necessary changes. This may help, you can also rerun your emerge
15 > world with the "--tree" option to see what is going on:
16 >
17 > alan@nazgul ~ $ equery depends -a gnome-applets
18 > [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-applets... ]
19 > gnome-base/gnome-2.20.3 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.20.1)
20 > gnome-base/gnome-2.22.0 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0)
21 > gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.1)
22 > gnome-extra/shermans-aquarium-2.2.0 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2)
23 >
24 > alan@nazgul ~ $ equery depends -a libgweather
25 > [ Searching for packages depending on libgweather... ]
26 > gnome-base/gnome-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.0)
27 > gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1)
28 > gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.21.1)
29 > gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
30 > gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.21.2)
31 > gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
32 > gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.2 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
33 > gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.3 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
34 >
35 > Are you sure you didn't emerge gnome?
36 >
37
38 Hi. The first case is the correct one -- the packages are in portage,
39 but the version numbers listed are not on the system -- this is what I
40 meant -- so I have two packages blocking each other the blocking
41 versions are not on the system at all which seems strange to me.
42 I will try the -tree option and see what I get.
43
44
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48 you spend it?
49
50 John Covici
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>