[gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

[Grant Edwards]

On 2017-01-30, thelma@×××××××××××.com <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
> On 01/29/2017 01:56 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months).
>> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into problems.
>>
> [snip]
>
> OK, I have just few blockers.  What to do with them?
> I have grup-0.97-r16 installed in slot: "0"
>
>
> [blocks B     ] sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot] ("sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot]" is blocking sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16)
> [blocks B     ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1)

You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub.


> dev-lang/perl:0
> x11-base/xorg-server:0
> media-libs/giflib:0
> media-libs/libdvbpsi:0
> dev-libs/kpathsea:0

For those, I'd probably just uninstall all of them.  Do an emerge
--depclean, then reinstall them...

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