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

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
>

Thanks, sounds like a pain, but doable.

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