Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -uD @system with lots of blocks!

[Mick]

On Thursday 09 Jan 2014 12:34:03 Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 01:01:28PM +0100, Tamer Higazi wrote:
> > I want to update the system and then world, but still have a lots of
> > blocks and don't know how to solve that.
> >
> > emerge error output:
> > http://pastebin.com/raw.php?i=XTKQHUjk
> >
> > On the gentoo forums nobody could help me.
> >
> > Perhaps here any ideas ?!
>
> Hi,
>
> try updating system and world at the same time. You have packages in system
> on which other packages in world depend. Try emerge -uvDNa @system @world
> If that doesn't help add backtrack as stated in the error: emerge -uvDNa
> @system @world --backtrack=30
>
> Most likely this will solve your issues. If not you could unmerge blocking
> packages but imho that's not a neat way. I'd rather emerge some selected
> packages manually (gobject-introspection and vala would be good candidates
> in your case) [use -v1 or you'll end up with a horribly cluttered world
> file]. If that doesn't work either it may be possible that there is no
> working upgrade path due to a too large version difference. In that case
> you could try to emerge intermediate versions manually (emerge -v1
> =<atom>-<version>)...

Also, careful when you are remerging packages which you previously 
uninstalled, that you do not inadvertently add packages in world, when they do 
not belong there (like libs and other dependencies). 

-- 
Regards,
Mick