Re: [gentoo-user] dev-lang/perl:0 - problem

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Am Sonntag, 19. April 2015, 13:05:02 schrieb Andreas K. Huettel:
> Am Sonntag, 19. April 2015, 01:38:30 schrieb Joseph:
> > I've not updated to two months and now I'm getting dependency problem with "dev-lang/perl"
> >
> >   (dev-lang/perl-5.20.2:0/5.20::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
> >     =dev-lang/perl-5.20.2* required by (virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.480.100-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> >     ^              ^^^^^^^
> >     (and 38 more with the same problem)
> >
> >   (dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r2:0/5.18::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >     dev-lang/perl:0/5.18=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Crypt-PasswdMD5-1.400.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> >                  ^^^^^^^^
> >     (and 94 more with the same problem)
> >
> > How to solve it? I don't want to mess with perl and ended up with "emerge" not working.
>
> emerge is written in python, so no worries there, you can't break it with perl.
>
> Sadly, with each new portage version the solution to these problems varies a bit.
>

Here's something else that might be worth a try and that I just remembered, 
if possible try it before anything else. 

Take the text block below (copied from /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask) 
and place it in your /etc/portage/package.unmask (to locally unmask 5.18 again), 
then try upgrading. 
(It would be *very* interesting to know if this helps... :)

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# Andreas K. Huettel <dilfridge@g.o> (29 Mar 2015)
# Mask Perl 5.18 for removal. Please upgrade to Perl 5.20
=dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r2
=virtual/perl-Archive-Tar-1.900.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.940.0-r1
=virtual/perl-AutoLoader-5.730.0-r2
=virtual/perl-B-Debug-1.180.0-r2
=virtual/perl-CGI-3.630.0-r2
=virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-Requirements-2.122.0-r2
=virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML-0.8.0-r2
=virtual/perl-CPAN-Meta-2.120.921-r2
=virtual/perl-CPAN-2.0.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Carp-1.290.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Bzip2-2.60.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Compress-Raw-Zlib-2.60.0-r2
=virtual/perl-DB_File-1.827.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Devel-PPPort-3.200.0-r4
=virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.520.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Encode-2.490.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Exporter-5.680.0-r2
=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder-0.280.210-r1
=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Command-1.170.0-r6
=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Install-1.590.0-r1
=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.660.0-r1
=virtual/perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.180.0-r2
=virtual/perl-File-Spec-3.400.0-r2
=virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.230.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Filter-Simple-0.890.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Getopt-Long-2.390.0-r1
=virtual/perl-I18N-LangTags-0.390.0
=virtual/perl-IO-Compress-2.60.0-r1
=virtual/perl-IO-1.280.0-r1
=virtual/perl-IPC-Cmd-0.800.0-r1
=virtual/perl-JSON-PP-2.272.20-r1
=virtual/perl-Locale-Maketext-1.230.0-r1
=virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.130.0-r4
=virtual/perl-Math-BigInt-FastCalc-0.300.0-r4
=virtual/perl-Math-BigInt-1.999.100
=virtual/perl-Math-BigRat-0.260.400
=virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.400.300-r1
=virtual/perl-Module-CoreList-3.30.0
=virtual/perl-Module-Load-Conditional-0.540.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Module-Load-0.240.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Module-Metadata-1.0.11-r1
=virtual/perl-Net-Ping-2.41-r1
=virtual/perl-Package-Constants-0.20.0-r5
=virtual/perl-Params-Check-0.360.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Parse-CPAN-Meta-1.440.400-r1
=virtual/perl-Perl-OSType-1.3.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Pod-Escapes-1.40.0-r5
=virtual/perl-Pod-Parser-1.600.0
=virtual/perl-Safe-2.350.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Scalar-List-Utils-1.270.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Socket-2.9.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Storable-2.410.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.320.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Term-ReadLine-1.120.0
=virtual/perl-Test-Harness-3.260.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Test-Simple-0.980.0-r6
=virtual/perl-Text-ParseWords-3.280.0-r2
=virtual/perl-Thread-Queue-3.20.0-r1
=virtual/perl-Time-HiRes-1.972.500-r3
=virtual/perl-Time-Piece-1.20-r2
=virtual/perl-XSLoader-0.160.0-r2
=virtual/perl-bignum-0.330.0
=virtual/perl-if-0.60.200-r2
=virtual/perl-libnet-1.220.0-r3
=virtual/perl-parent-0.225.0-r5
=virtual/perl-threads-shared-1.430.0-r1
=virtual/perl-threads-1.860.0-r4
=virtual/perl-version-0.990.200-r1


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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@g.o
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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