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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 22:25:24
Message-Id: lvq7ik$4bv$2@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge by Alan McKinnon
1 On 22/09/14 16:38, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On 22/09/2014 13:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >> When I run:
4 >>
5 >> emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world
6 >>
7 >> I get this:
8 >>
9 >> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
10 >> dependency conflict:
11 >>
12 >> x11-base/xorg-server:0
13 >>
14 >> (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild
15 >> scheduled for merge) conflicts with
16 >> x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.15.1= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-
17 >> input-evdev-2.8.4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
18 >>
19 >> and xorg-server is not updated at all. [...]
20 >
21 > It gets stranger. I was getting the same results as you and did some
22 > experiments running emerge -p and --backtrack.
23 >
24 > And suddenly, emerge -avuND world now works as expected.
25
26 Doesn't work for me. The default (according to the emerge man page) is
27 10. I tried 20, 40, 100, 200 and even 500, but no luck. I then tried
28 5000, and it still doesn't find the update.