Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found

[Iain Buchanan]

On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:51 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: 
> On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote:
> > Uwe Thiem wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> > >
> > > emerge --update world tells me:
> > > [blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
> > > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
> > >
> > > emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
> > > --- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
> > >
> > > So let's be more specific:
> > > emerge --unmerge =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10 tells me:
> > > --- Couldn't find '=dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10' to unmerge.
> > >
> > > Now what?

heh heh!

> > Equery list gtk-doc and see what it says is installed.  It may not
> > be that exact version.  Ran into something similar a while back.
>
> uwix uwe # equery list gtk-doc-am
> [ Searching for package 'gtk-doc-am' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> uwix uwe # equery list gtk-doc
> [ Searching for package 'gtk-doc' in all categories among: ]
>  * installed packages
> [I--] [  ] dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2 (0)
>
> gtk-doc-1.8-r2 is the package that gets blocked, it isn't installed
> yet..

yes it is!  equery just told you so! 

> More interesting is that the first equery didn't list anything, but
> the gtk-doc-am ebuild exists:
> uwix uwe # ls /usr/portage/dev-util/gtk-doc-am
> ChangeLog  Manifest  gtk-doc-am-1.10.ebuild  metadata.xml

yes, the ebuild exists, but it's not installed!  Therefore equery didn't
show it to you.

> Grrrr. Wanted to let a long compile sesses run overnight - and now
> this! Conspiracies. All around me. Against my innocent self.

:)

I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's blocking
the one you have installed.  You need to uninstall gtk-doc, and then you
can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

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