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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:07:39
Message-Id: 1459139.8eSg7EpRi9@weird
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper by "Sebastian Beßler"
1 Sebastian Beßler writes:
2
3 > Am 01.07.2011 12:39, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
4 > > Hi, Gentoo!
5 > >
6 > > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
7 > > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
8 > > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
9 > > USE="introspection*" [blocks b ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
10 > > ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking
11 > > x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
12 > >
13 > > . Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is
14 > > too old for gnome-pty-helper"?
15 > >
16 > > It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one
17 > > it's about to install. In this case, can I just emerge vte "by hand"
18 > > first?
19
20 I think so.
21
22 > Does portage solve that blocking or not?
23 > What says emerge -auND ? Can you go on with emerge or not?
24 >
25 > Normaly portage solves that by uninstalling the old version before
26 > installing the new one.
27
28 Isn't that a thing that only the masked portage 2.2 does? I guess Alan stll
29 runs stable portage.
30
31 Wonko

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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper "Sebastian Beßler" <sebastian@××××××××××××.de>