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From: wabenbau@×××××.com
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 00:33:27
Message-Id: 20140223013236.75b687d9@hal9000.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please. by Alan Mackenzie
1 Am Samstag, 22.02.2014 um 21:15
2 schrieb Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>:
3
4 > Hi, Gentoo.
5 >
6 > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long
7 > interval. I got the error message:
8 >
9 > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have
10 > been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot
11 > conflict:
12 >
13 > , etc.
14 >
15 > To simplify the problem, I tried to emerge an individual package
16 > identified in that message, and tried emerge -p libpng. I got the
17 > same message, with this:
18 >
19 > ###############################################################################
20 > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
21 > pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
22 >
23 > media-libs/libpng:0
24 >
25 > (media-libs/libpng-1.5.17-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
26 > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
27 > (x11-libs/cairo-1.12.14-r4::gentoo, installed)
28 > >=media-libs/libpng-1.4:0/0= required by
29 > >(app-editors/emacs-24.3-r2::gentoo, installed)
30 > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
31 > (media-libs/libwebp-0.3.1::gentoo, installed) media-libs/libpng:0/0=
32 > required by (net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r1::gentoo, installed)
33 > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
34 > (kde-base/kdelibs-4.11.2-r1::gentoo, installed)
35 > media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by (dev-qt/qtgui-4.8.5-r1::gentoo,
36 > installed) media-libs/libpng:0/0= required by
37 > (app-text/poppler-0.24.3::gentoo, installed) (and 3 more with the
38 > same problems)
39 >
40 > (media-libs/libpng-1.6.8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
41 > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in
42 > this slot)
43 > ###############################################################################
44 >
45 > Clearly, I'm trying to update libpng-1.5.17 to libpng-1.6.8. What
46 > does this portion of the message mean:
47 >
48 > media-libs/libpng:0/0=
49 > ^^^^^
50 >
51 > ? Is it somehow telling me that cairo and friends require the
52 > currently installed version, whatever that is? Where is this format
53 > documented? I couldn't find anything about it in the Gentoo
54 > handbook, and not in the emerge man page either.
55 >
56 > What do I have to do to get this thing emerged?
57 >
58 > Thanks!
59 >
60
61 Sometimes it is helpful to increase the backtrack value. Some weeks ago
62 I had a similar problem and could I solve it with
63
64 emerge --backtrack=100 ...

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