Re: [gentoo-user] I don't understand what's happening with "emerge gnupg"

[Andrey Falko]

On Dec 15, 2007 6:55 PM, Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> wrote:

>  I just did an "emerge --sync", and checked what was available for
> updateing...
>
> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask --deep --update --world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20070724 [20070118]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-libs/libassuan-1.0.2-r1 [0.6.10]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.17 [0.16.1-r1]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-util/dialog-1.1.20071028 [1.1.20070930]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/com_err-1.40.3 [1.40.2]
> [ebuild     U ] www-client/w3m-0.5.2-r1 [0.5.2]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/ss-1.40.3 [1.40.2]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.3 [1.40.2]
> [ebuild     U ] net-firewall/iptables-1.3.8-r2 [1.3.8-r1]
> [ebuild     U ] x11-apps/xinit-1.0.5-r1 [1.0.4] USE="-hal% -pam%"
> [ebuild  N    ] app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.3  USE="ncurses -caps -gtk -qt3"
> [ebuild     U ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.7 [1.4.7-r1] USE="-doc% -openct%
> -pcsc-lite%"
> [blocks B     ] <=app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.1 (is blocking app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.7
> )
>
>  I do *NOT* have *ANY* packages masked in /etc/portage/package.mask
> Anyhow, I manually unmerged gnupg (would you believe version 1.4.7-r1 ?),
> and asked for an update again...
>
> [m3000][root][~] emerge --ask --deep --update --world
>
> These are the packages that would be fetched, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20070724 [20070118]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-libs/libassuan-1.0.2-r1 [0.6.10]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gettext-0.17 [0.16.1-r1]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-util/dialog-1.1.20071028 [1.1.20070930]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/com_err-1.40.3 [1.40.2]
> [ebuild     U ] www-client/w3m-0.5.2-r1 [0.5.2]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/ss-1.40.3 [1.40.2]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.40.3 [1.40.2]
> [ebuild     U ] net-firewall/iptables-1.3.8-r2 [1.3.8-r1]
> [ebuild     U ] x11-apps/xinit-1.0.5-r1 [1.0.4] USE="-hal% -pam%"
> [ebuild  N    ] app-crypt/pinentry-0.7.3  USE="ncurses -caps -gtk -qt3"
> [ebuild  N    ] app-crypt/gnupg-2.0.7  USE="bzip2 -doc -ldap -nls -openct
> -pcsc-lite (-selinux) -smartcard"
>
>  Curious minds want to know...
>
>  - why didn't portage replace the old version itself?  That's generally
>    part of the update process.


Probably because for some package a DEPEND was set to something like:
>=gnupg-2.0.7

>
>
>  - once I manually unmerged gnupg, what brings it back?  I did *NOT*
>    use revdep-rebuild.

A package on your system needs gnupg as a dependency.

>
>
>  - what's with the additional flags for 2.0.7 compared to what 2.0.7
>    had the previous time I tried?

Some flags were added it to allow for more customization of gnupg is my
guess.

Good questions!

>
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