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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: i don't see icu
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2019 11:21:45
Message-Id: 20190619112135.GF18009@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: i don't see icu by Nikos Chantziaras
1 190615 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > On 15/06/2019 11:57, Philip Webb wrote:
3 >> For a long time, I've been having a problem upgrading 'icu'.
4 >> There seems to be a conflict with KDE :
5 >> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
6 >> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
7 >> dev-libs/icu:0
8 >> (dev-libs/icu-64.2:0/64.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
9 >> dev-libs/icu (Argument)
10 >> (dev-libs/icu-60.2:0/60.2::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
11 >> dev-libs/icu:0/60.2= required by (dev-qt/qtwebkit-5.212.0_pre20180120:5/5.212::gentoo, installed)
12 >> ^^^^^^^^
13 > I get something like that from time to time.
14 > What I do is to back up the current ICU with:
15 > quickpkg dev-libs/icu
16 > so that I can quickly install it again if something doesn't work later on.
17 > Reinstalling it from the above created binary package is done with:
18 > emerge -a1K dev-libs/icu
19 > Then I unmerge it:
20 > emerge -aC dev-libs/icu
21 > And then I run the @world upgrade again
22 > and see if portage is now able to figure it out.
23
24 Thanks : that's my own procedure in simpler cases.
25 In fact, it worked well here too, upgrading 'icu' + some requirements.
26 After that, there was 2 hr further "preserved-rebuild", incl LO.
27 It's a pity Portage can't handle these cases itself or offer help.
28
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