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On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:51 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 12 October 2008 08:04:22 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> On Sonntag 12 Oktober 2008, Alan E. Davis wrote: |
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>> > Almost perpetually, the following packages or their versions are |
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>> > blocking. I have run emerge -e system several times. Some other |
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>> > problems were cleared up, and this |
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>> > avahi--mDNSResponder/mdnsresponder-compat whatever it all is, just |
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>> > keeps coming back even when solved by some skullduggery. I've removed |
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>> > both of them at one time or another. |
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>> > |
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>> > [blocks B ] net-dns/avahi ("net-dns/avahi" is blocking |
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>> > net-misc/mDNSResponder-107.6-r5) |
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>> > |
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>> > [blocks B ] net-misc/mDNSResponder ("net-misc/mDNSResponder" is |
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>> > blocking net-dns/avahi-0.6.23) |
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>> > I guess the problem is that I am running gnome and also have two or |
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>> > three different versions/slots of kde installed. I suppose, then, |
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>> > it's remarkable that only these blocks are showing up? |
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>> > Can someone lend a hand on this? Anything I do is little more than |
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>> > blind tinkering. |
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>> > |
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>> > Alan |
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>> |
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>> set the avahi useflag, unmerge mdnsresponder, emerge avahi. |
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> That looks familiar. I remember similar deep blocks myself - it was nasty at |
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> the time. |
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> For the OP's benefit, here's a high level summary of what is going on: |
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> Avahi and mDNSResponder implement a system called ZeroConf, first designed by |
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> Apple. It's a way for machines on a network to find each other and what |
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> network features they support. These systems are quite low-level so |
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> unfortunately the implementations are often incompatible. |
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> By and large you will find that Gnome stuff supports Avahi and KDE stuff |
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> supports mDNSResponder, so the only way out of this mess is often extensive |
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> use of 'equery hasuse', 'equery depends' and 'emerge -pvt' so see what pulls |
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> in what. But first you should research what these things are so you can make |
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> intelligent decisions about what to include and what to drop. The thing that |
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> cleared it up for me was an interview with the KDE team lead responsible for |
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> these features - Google will find it for you. |
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IIRC mdnsresponder-compat USE flags allows use of avahi in KDE (3). |
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> Personally, I find these things more trouble than they are worth. They seem to |
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> be designed for the "Apple Generation User" (whatever that is), and I have no |
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> use for that on the networks I work on. ZeroConf is not necessarily something |
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> you have to have installed... |
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> -- |
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> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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