Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package is not actually installed

[Michael Sullivan]

On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 14:25 -0400, John covici wrote:
> on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan(michael@××××××××××××.com) wrote
>  > I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that
>  > portage claims is not even installed:
>  >
>  > catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
>  >
>  > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>  >
>  > Calculating dependencies... done!
>  > [ebuild  N    ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1  395 kB
>  > [blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
>  > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
>  >
>  > Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 395 kB
>  >
>  > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  > installed
>  > !!!        at the same time on the same system.
>  >
>  > For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
>  > following
>  > section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
>  >
>  > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>  >
>  > catherine ~ # emerge -pv dev-util/gtk-doc-am
>  >
>  > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>  >
>  > Calculating dependencies... done!
>  > [ebuild  N    ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1  395 kB
>  > [blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
>  > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
>  >
>  > Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 395 kB
>  >
>  > What should I do?
>
> What I did was to unmerge dev-util/gtk-doc and that seemed to fix
> things.  You might want to look at a previous thread of a couple of
> days ago which I started and was quite informative.
>
> --
> Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> How do
> you spend it?
>
>          John Covici
>          covici@××××××××××.com

I unmerged gtk-doc and ran my command again.  Now it wants to install
gtk-doc, but it's still blocked:

catherine ~ # emerge -av =gtk+-2.12.9-r2

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2  USE="debug doc -emacs" 182 kB 
[ebuild  N    ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1  395 kB 
[ebuild     U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.9-r2 [2.12.8] USE="X cups debug doc
jpeg tiff -vim-syntax -xinerama" 15,652 kB 
[blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)

Total: 3 packages (1 upgrade, 2 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 16,229
kB

!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
installed
!!!        at the same time on the same system.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked


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