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On Thursday 06 December 2007, Thufir wrote: |
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> I haven't put much time into this, unfortunately, but am getting |
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> blocked packages when emerging gnome. Just kinda throwing this out |
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> there, I'll hopefully be able to do some research later today and add |
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> to this post: |
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[snip] |
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> arrakis ~ # emerge -DuNv gnome |
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> These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[snip] |
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> [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- |
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> mapper-1.02.22-r5) |
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> [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/ |
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> aspell-0.60.5) |
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> [blocks B ] <sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/ |
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> udev-115-r1) |
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All that this means is that sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.22-r5 is not |
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compatible with sys-fs/udev-115-r1. |
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It's not an error or a bug. It simply means that thing A can't be used |
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together with thing B, so YOU need to decide which versions of $THING |
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you want to use.... |
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[snip] |
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> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the |
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> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is |
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> irrelevant): |
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> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked |
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... by reading this link if necessary. You may have to emerge --sync to |
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get versions where the latest stable are compatbile with each other. Or |
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more likely, it's becuase udev and device-mapper are not removed and |
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updated simultaneously. One of them is done first and it often happens |
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that that package is incompatible with whatever version of the other |
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one happens to still be on the machine (never mind that it's going to |
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be removed itself in a few minutes, portage doesn't know about that). |
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Nothing to see here, move along, this is gentoo after all. |
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alan |
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Optimists say the glass is half full, |
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Pessimists say the glass is half empty, |
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Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za |
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+27 82, double three seven, one nine three five |
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