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From: Andrew Lowe <agl@×××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Still got problems with help2man and Perl
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 03:04:27
Message-Id: 5025CB3E.9050709@wht.com.au
1 Hi all,
2
3 ******
4
5 HAAAA!!! No problems now. Whilst writing this, and doing the steps, the
6 problem has now resolved. Read on if you have any interest in Perl and
7 portage going feral.....
8
9 ******
10
11 I made a post about a week ago regarding this, got a few replies,
12 accidentally deleted said replies, had work get in the way, etc etc - a
13 typical week in other words. Anyway, I've tracked down the replies in
14 the archives and had a bit of a fiddle. So to recap:
15
16 1) Did an "emerge --sync" this morning.
17
18 2) Perl 2.16 was built, successfully
19
20 3) help2man was next up. During the config stage, "Check this, checking
21 that...", it fails with:
22
23 "configure: error: perl module Locale::gettext required"
24
25 According to emerge I have V1.50.0 of Locale-gettext installed.
26
27 4) Googling mentions running perl-cleaner so I give
28
29 "perl-cleaner --reallyall"
30
31 a try and end up with:
32
33 *******************
34
35 .
36 ..
37 ...
38 ....
39 ....
40 ....
41 ....
42 [ebuild R ] virtual/perl-Module-Build-0.400.200 0 kB
43 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/File-BaseDir-0.30.0 USE="-test" 0 kB
44 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Error-0.170.180 USE="-test" 0 kB
45 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/File-DesktopEntry-0.40.0 USE="-test" 0 kB
46 [ebuild UD ] dev-lang/perl-5.12.3-r1 [5.16.1] USE="berkdb gdbm
47 -build% -debug -doc -ithreads" 0 kB
48 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/DBI-1.622.0 USE="-test" 0 kB
49 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/Locale-gettext-1.50.0 0 kB
50 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/File-MimeInfo-0.160.0 USE="-test" 0 kB
51 [ebuild R ] dev-vcs/subversion-1.7.5 USE="berkdb kde nls perl
52 webdav-neon -apache2 -ctypes-python -debug -doc -dso -extras
53 -gnome-keyring -java -python -ruby -sasl -vim-syntax -webdav-serf" 0 kB
54 [ebuild R ] dev-vcs/git-1.7.8.6 USE="blksha1 curl iconv perl
55 python subversion threads webdav -cgi -cvs -doc -emacs -gtk (-ppcsha1)
56 -tk -xinetd" 0 kB
57 [ebuild R ] dev-perl/DBD-mysql-4.20.0 USE="-embedded" 0 kB
58
59 Total: 117 packages (12 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 4 new, 100 reinstalls),
60 Size of downloads: 2,491 kB
61
62 !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
63 !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
64
65 dev-lang/perl:0
66
67 (dev-lang/perl-5.12.3-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
68 in by
69 ~dev-lang/perl-5.12.3 required by
70 (virtual/perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27::gentoo, installed)
71
72 (dev-lang/perl-5.16.1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
73 =dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by
74 (virtual/perl-libnet-1.220.0-r1::gentoo, installed)
75 (and 9 more with the same problem)
76
77
78 It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
79 prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
80 possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
81 impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in
82 the dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can
83 not be installed simultaneously. You may want to try a larger value of
84 the --backtrack option, such as --backtrack=30, in order to see if
85 that will solve this conflict automatically.
86
87 For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
88 page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
89
90
91 !!! The following installed packages are masked:
92 - www-plugins/adobe-flash-11.1.102.62::gentoo (masked by:
93 AdobeFlash-10.3 license(s))
94 A copy of the 'AdobeFlash-10.3' license is located at
95 '/usr/portage/licenses/AdobeFlash-10.3'.
96
97 For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
98 man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
99
100 * perl-cleaner is stopping here:
101 * Fix the problem and start perl-cleaner again.
102
103
104 *******************
105
106 Basically, if I'm reading this correctly, it appears that that
107 perl-cleaner wants to downgrade perl, 5.16 -> 5.12 and there is some
108 sort of slot conflict.
109
110 5) Would it be safe to mask 5.12 of Perl? From what I'm seeing,
111 perl-Sys-Syslog-0.27 seems to want it.
112
113 6) Checking version of perl-Sys-Syslog reveals that I have 0.27 and
114 there is a 0.29 that no updates seem to be catching. So I'll manually
115 update that - done successfully.
116
117 7) Perl-cleaner again - It worked this time.
118
119 8) "emerge -NuD world" again - SUCCESS, help2man done and now onto the
120 200 odd KDE thingies that want to be updated......
121
122 Looks like I'm now good to go
123
124 Regards,
125 Andrew