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From: Alexander Openkowski <opncow@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 21:01:51
Message-Id: 4eb0738e-7367-d4ff-c175-f46809d15c2f@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system by thelma@sys-concept.com
1 Put the following in package.mask on systems not using grub2 to prevent
2 it from installing:
3
4 sys-boot/grub:2
5
6 On 01/30/2017 09:57 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
7 > On 01/30/2017 01:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
8 >> On 2017-01-30, thelma@×××××××××××.com <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
9 >>> On 01/29/2017 01:56 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
10 >>>> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months).
11 >>>> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into problems.
12 >>>>
13 >>> [snip]
14 >>>
15 >>> OK, I have just few blockers. What to do with them?
16 >>> I have grup-0.97-r16 installed in slot: "0"
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>> [blocks B ] sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot] ("sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot]" is blocking sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16)
20 >>> [blocks B ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1)
21 >> You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub.
22 > I don't use grub-2.
23 > I think I will need to install grub-0.97-r16
24 > and reinstall it gain.
25 > Do I need to enable 'multislot' use flag for grub?
26 >
27 >>
28 >>> dev-lang/perl:0
29 >>> x11-base/xorg-server:0
30 >>> media-libs/giflib:0
31 >>> media-libs/libdvbpsi:0
32 >>> dev-libs/kpathsea:0
33 >> For those, I'd probably just uninstall all of them. Do an emerge
34 >> --depclean, then reinstall them...
35 > --
36 > Thelma
37 >
38 >