Re: [gentoo-user] And thus the emerge spake...

[Paul Colquhoun]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2016 05:45:15 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
> Hi,
>
> ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit
> after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge.
> I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the
> path, but it seems that I am not supposed to understand this:
>
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
>
> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency
> conflict:
>
> dev-util/boost-build:0
>
>   (dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> conflicts with =dev-util/boost-build-1.58* required by
> (dev-libs/boost-1.58.0-r1:0/1.58.0::gentoo, installed) ^
>  ^^^^^
>
>
> !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies:
>
> dev-libs/boost:0
>
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-util/boost-build-1.60*" have been
> masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete
> your request: - dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0::gentoo (masked by: )
>
>
> For me it looks like boost not beeing updated/reinstalled because of
> another version of boost, which depends on boost.
>
> HELP, I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody hee-eee-eelp uuuuuhhhh!
>
> Thanks for any HELP in advance! May the source be with you...
> Best regards,
> Meino


Be careful upgrading boost & boost-build. I updated to 1,60.0 a little while 
ago, and akonadi stopped working until I went back to version 1.58.0

This also stopped anything that depends on akonadi, things like kmail.


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