Re: [gentoo-user] Updating old Gentoo on notebook

[Dale]

Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 08:22:07AM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote
>> Do a world update first, but you'll probably find you still need some of
>> them afterwards.
> "emerge -pv --changed-use --deep --update @world" gives me...
>
> Total: 378 packages (299 upgrades, 52 new, 2 in new slots, 25 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 1,408,922 KiB
> Conflict: 4 blocks
>
>   Trying to run the emerge shuts down in a few seconds without obvious
> error messages.  The blocks are...
>
> [blocks b      ] <=x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1 ("<=x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1" is blocking gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3)
> [blocks b      ] <dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.68.0 ("<dev-libs/gobject-introspection-1.68.0" is blocking dev-libs/gobject-introspection-common-1.68.0)
> [blocks b      ] >perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.500.0-r999 (">perl-core/Scalar-List-Utils-1.500.0-r999" is blocking virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.500.0-r2)
> [blocks b      ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10-r2 ("=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10-r2" is blocking gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3)
>
>   On a hunch, I tried "emerge -pv xorg-server" and got more errors...
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3::gentoo  0 KiB
> [ebuild  r  U  ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.13-r1:0/1.20.13::gentoo [1.20.10-r2:0/1.20.10::gentoo] USE="suid udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc -elogind -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) -systemd -test% -unwind -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb (-libressl%) (-wayland%)" 5,003 KiB
> [blocks b      ] =x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10-r2 ("=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10-r2" is blocking gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3)
> [ebuild  r  U  ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-1.1.0::gentoo [0.30.0::gentoo] 372 KiB
> [blocks B      ] <=x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1 ("<=x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1" is blocking gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3)
> [blocks B      ] <=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.98 ("<=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.98" is blocking gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3)
>
> Total: 3 packages (2 upgrades, 1 new), Size of downloads: 5,375 KiB
> Conflict: 3 blocks (2 unsatisfied)
>
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>   (x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     >=x11-apps/xinit-1.3.3-r1 required by (x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.13-r1:0/1.20.13::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="suid udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc -elogind -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) -systemd -test -unwind -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb"
>
>   (gui-libs/display-manager-init-1.0-r3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
>     gui-libs/display-manager-init required by (x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.13-r1:0/1.20.13::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) USE="suid udev xorg -debug -dmx -doc -elogind -ipv6 -kdrive -minimal (-selinux) -systemd -test -unwind -xcsecurity -xephyr -xnest -xvfb"
>
>   (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.97-1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     >=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 required by (sys-apps/openrc-0.42.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) USE="ncurses netifrc (split-usr) unicode -audit -bash -debug -newnet -pam (-prefix) (-selinux) -static-libs -sysv-utils"
>


I'm no pro at this but I think if you update xinit and sysvinit first it
will clear that block.  It could be the other way around tho.  If init
packages first doesn't work, try the display-manager-init first. 
Sometimes emerge spits things out backwards. 

One could remove those two *init packages but if you are actually
running that install, it could cause issues.  If done while chrooting
in, it should be safe. 

One of those methods *should* work.  In theory.  ;-)

Dale

:-)  :-)