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On 01/15/2017 12:39 PM, wabe wrote: |
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> Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>> On 2017-01-15 11:28 AM, wabe wrote: |
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>>> Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I |
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>>> update my system: |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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>>> |
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>>> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>>> |
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>>> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB |
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>>> |
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>>> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a |
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>>> dependency conflict: |
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>>> |
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>>> app-text/xmlto:0 |
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>>> |
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>>> (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for |
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>>> merge) conflicts with |
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>>> >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by |
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>>> >(x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) |
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>>> > |
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>>> |
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>>> Nothing to merge; quitting. |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> I don't understand this because these versions are already |
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>>> installed on my system: |
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>>> |
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>>> [I] app-text/xmlto |
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>>> Available versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text} |
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>>> Installed versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text |
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>>> -latex) |
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>>> |
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>>> [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils |
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>>> Available versions: 1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc |
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>>> +perl} Installed versions: 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc |
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>>> perl) |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> |
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>>> How can a package conflict with itself (same version)? |
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>>> |
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>>> -- |
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>>> Regards |
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>>> wabe |
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>>> |
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>> |
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>> From what I can tell it's telling you that the xmlto package is too |
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>> old. xdg-utils needs a newer version, and I suspect that it's marked |
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>> unstable. If you unmask a newer version of xmlto the error will go |
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>> away. |
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> That was also my first thought. But then I noticed the "greater or |
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> equal" sign ">=". According to that, the installed version should |
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> be sufficient. |
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Whoops! I missed the '=' there. I wonder if there was a bug when it was |
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evaluating dependencies. |
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> And I also expect that a stable package doesn't depend on an unstable |
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> (~amd64) one. |
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> However you are right. Unmasking xmlto resolved the conflict. |
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It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I can only remember maybe a |
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half dozen times over the last 10-12 years. The devs do what they can to |
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minimize this, I would presume. |
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Dan |
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