Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of questions about updating gentoo

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 03 July 2011 06:26:00 covici@××××××××××.com did opine 
thusly:
> Hi.  I am having problems with my current world update of an
> unstable gentoo system.  Before I paste the output, I need to tell
> you that I need to have perl compiled with threads enabled because
> its a requirement of freeswitch -- my current pbx.  Also, I want to
> stay with Firefox 3 and up to now, portage has just skipped the
> xulrunner update, I am not sure why its changed its mind.  Also,
> what can I do about the gst plugin -- I don't understand what it is
> trying to tell me here.

There's a massive bunch of plugins for gstreamer, and not all of them 
got updated simultaneously (or maybe the ebuilds are not all done 
yet).

Either way, you have versions 0.10.35 conflicting with 0.10.32 and 
portage can't fix it by itself, as it's trying to do the updates in 
the wrong order for that.

Fix it like so:

- eix gst-plugins-
- pick everything out of that long list that will upgraded to 0.10.35
- emerge them manually
- proceed with emerge world

There's probably a shorter way, one critical plugins package that when 
upgraded manually will release the whole lot. I didn't bother with 
that - looked like too much effort for a Sunday morning

Don't just look at the portage output, see lots of stuff and get 
confused. Actually read it and examine each line. It makes sense.

As for your other errors (xulrunner etc), I don't know about those, I 
didn't hit them myself.


>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
>
> Here is the output of my latest attempt to update world:
>
> Calculating dependencies  ... . ... done!
>
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have
> been pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>
> net-libs/xulrunner:1.9
>
>   (net-libs/xulrunner-2.0.1-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>   pulled in by
>     (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this
> slot)
>
>   (net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.18::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>   pulled in by
>
> ~net-libs/xulrunner-1.9.2.18[ipc=,java=,wifi=,libnotify=,system-sql
> ite=] required by (www-client/firefox-3.6.18::gentoo, ebuild
> scheduled for merge)
>
> media-libs/gst-plugins-base:0.10
>
>   (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32::gentoo, installed) pulled in
> by ~media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.32 required by
>     (media-plugins/gst-plugins-x-0.10.32::gentoo, installed)
>
>   (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> merge) pulled in by
>     ~media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35 required by
>   (media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.10.35::gentoo, ebuild
> scheduled for merge)
>
>     >=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35 required by
>
>   (media-plugins/gst-plugins-gio-0.10.35::gentoo, ebuild scheduled
> for merge)
>     (and 10 more with the same problems)
>
>
> It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
> prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is
> also possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they
> are impossible to satisfy simultaneously.  If such a conflict
> exists in the dependencies of two different packages, then those
> packages can not be installed simultaneously.
>
> For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
>
>
> emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy
> "dev-lang/perl[-ithreads]".
> !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your
> request: - dev-lang/perl-5.12.4 (Change USE: -ithreads)
> (dependency required by "www-apache/mod_perl-2.0.5[-threads]"
> [ebuild]) (dependency required by "@selected" [set])
> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com