Re: [gentoo-user] colord failed to upgrade

[Gevisz]

On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 10:07:18 +0200
"J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:

> On Friday, August 01, 2014 07:11:59 AM Gevisz wrote:
> > On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:17:54 +0200
> >
> > "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
> > > On 31 July 2014 16:19:21 CEST, Gevisz <gevisz@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:03:09 -0400
> > > >
> > > >Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > > >> I can't comment on a long-term, real, proper solution, but for
> > > >> right now
> > > >>
> > > >>     emerge --oneshot dev-perl/XML-Parser
> > > >>
> > > >> should at least allow you to continue building colord.
> > > >
> > > >It seems that it helped, but not the suggestions from
> > > >
> > > >  # perl-cleaner --all
> > > >
> > > >output.
> > > >
> > > >Thank you.
> > >
> > > Did you run the commands and then rerun perlcleaner as the output
> > > mentions at the end of the text?
> >
> > No. I did not run perl-cleaner just after those 2 suggested commands
> > because I had not noted that demand. So, my complaint that the
> > suggested "long-term" solution does not work may be incorrect.
>
> The claim is incorrect. I did what it said in the output and it
> resolved the issue on my systems.
>
> > However, I run perl-cleaner after
> >
> > # emerge --oneshot dev-perl/XML-Parser
> > # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=60
> > --ask
> world
> > # emerge --depclean --ask
> >
> > So, I hope that the problem was fixed.
>
> It should be resolved now.
> I don't add the "--backtrack" part.
> It hasn't been needed for me ever since I started using Gentoo
> sometime in 2004. (Not sure when it got introduced?)

I am not sure if it was needed this time, but only this option
helped me to fix the problem with my previous system update when
I deviated a bit from my usual system update routine and got a similar
message about blocked packages.