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From: Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: package conflict on update
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 07:42:12
Message-Id: 9b1675090601042332k2b12f6bduddb03f8c737e225e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] package conflict on update by Trenton Adams
1 Oh, if someone does make emerge detect how to resolve the conflict,
2 perhaps it should ask the user if they would like to continue with the
3 unmerge/re-emerge. After all, it could be a critical system utility
4 that is running.
5
6 On 1/5/06, Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@×××××.com> wrote:
7 > Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today.
8 > My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate
9 > packages, correct?
10 >
11 > To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge
12 > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then
13 > automatically unmerge the original package?
14 >
15 > The fix for this was to "emerge --unmerge openmotif", and then
16 > re-emerge it. Then I was finally able to do a system update. Do you
17 > want this reported as a bug, or is it already?
18 >
19 >
20 > [00:16 root@joseph data] # emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse
21 > --buildpkg world
22 >
23 > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
24 >
25 > Calculating world dependencies ...done!
26 > [blocks B ] =x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 (is blocking
27 > x11-libs/motif-config-0.9)
28 > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r5 [1.3.12-r4]
29 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.18 [2.16]
30 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2
31 > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.8.4 [2.6.5]
32 > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/atk-1.10.3 [1.10.1]
33 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/pango-1.10.2 [1.8.1-r1]
34 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.8 [2.6.10-r1]
35 > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.2-r1 [1.2.1]
36 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.1 [3.0-r2]
37 > [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.14 [0.10.13-r2]
38 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9
39 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [2.2.3-r3]
40 > [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10 [1.0.10_rc3]
41 > [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10 [1.0.10_rc3]
42 > [ebuild U ] kde-base/kpdf-3.4.3-r3 [3.4.3-r2]
43 > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r2 [4.1.20-r1]
44 > [ebuild N ] virtual/libstdc++-3.3
45 > [ebuild U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre1 [0.2.1_rc3]
46 >
47 > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
48 > !!! on the same system.
49 >
50
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