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From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Lots of big updates...
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2014 19:55:37
Message-Id: 53E79817.5060901@libertytrek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Lots of big updates... by Tanstaafl
1 On 8/10/2014 11:45 AM, Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@×××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > I haven't updated in a little while, and am seeing a lot of big updates...
3 >
4 > The main ones that concern me are:
5 >
6 > perl (5.16 > 5.18)
7
8 Ok, a little experimenting to see if I can stage these updates and just
9 update perl first, I get:
10
11 > # emerge -pvuDN perl
12 >
13 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
14 >
15 > Calculating dependencies... done!
16 > [ebuild U ] virtual/libintl-0-r1 [0] ABI_X86="(64%*) -32% (-x32)" 0 kB
17 > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20140212 [20131128] 44 kB
18 > [ebuild U ] app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.16 [2.15] 6 kB
19 > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-4.8.30-r1:4.8 [4.8.30:4.8] USE="cxx -doc -examples -java -tcl {-test}" ABI_X86="(64%*) (-32) (-x32)" 22,351 kB
20 > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r1:0/5.18 [5.16.3:0/5.16] USE="berkdb gdbm -debug -doc -ithreads" 13,746 kB
21 >
22 > Total: 5 packages (5 upgrades), Size of downloads: 36,147 kB
23 >
24 > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
25 > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
26 >
27 > dev-lang/perl:0
28 >
29 > (dev-lang/perl-5.16.3::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
30 > =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by (virtual/perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.930.0-r1::gentoo, installed)
31 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Net-SSLeay-1.550::gentoo, installed)
32 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/IO-Socket-SSL-1.953.0::gentoo, installed)
33 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Sub-Exporter-0.986.0::gentoo, installed)
34 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/PlRPC-0.202.0-r2::gentoo, installed)
35 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Net-Daemon-0.480.0-r1::gentoo, installed)
36 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-vcs/git-1.8.5.5::gentoo, installed)
37 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/log-dispatch-2.410.0::gentoo, installed)
38 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Try-Tiny-0.180.0::gentoo, installed)
39 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Error-0.170.210::gentoo, installed)
40 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Package-Stash-XS-0.280.0::gentoo, installed)
41 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (net-analyzer/net-snmp-5.7.3_pre3::gentoo, installed)
42 > dev-lang/perl:0/5.16=[-build(-)] required by (dev-perl/Package-Stash-0.360.0::gentoo, installed)
43 > (and 1 more with the same problems)
44 >
45 > (dev-lang/perl-5.18.2-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
46 > =dev-lang/perl-5.18* required by (virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.130.0-r3::gentoo, installed)
47 > (and 3 more with the same problem)
48
49 A little googling suggests that I could resolve this by a simple:
50
51 emerge -C virtual/perl-Attribute-Handlers-0.930.0-r1
52 &
53 emerge -C virtual/perl-MIME-Base64-3.130.0-r3
54
55 But even if this does resolve the conflicts, what would break
56 (temporarily) if I removed those? They're virtuals, so... maybe...
57 nothing? Any way to check?

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lots of big updates... Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Lots of big updates... Bill Kenworthy <billk@×××××××××.au>