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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:12:19
Message-Id: 20081017141212.012ced3f@zaphod.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] update world drives me nuts by Helmut Jarausch
1 On Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:46:19 +0200 (CEST), Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2
3 > E.g. here is the complete output of
4 > emerge --tree --update --deep --pretend world
5 >
6 > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies ... done!
9 >
10 > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
11 > ">=app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.3.0" have been masked. !!! One of
12 > the following masked packages is required to complete your request:
13 > - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.6.0-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
14 > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
15 > # Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> (24 Jan 2008)
16 > # add masked gnome-system-tools-2.20 and dependencies
17 > # for testing purpose
18 >
19 > - app-admin/system-tools-backends-2.4.2 (masked by: package.mask)
20 > - app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.4.2-r1 (masked by: package.mask)
21 > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
22 > # Gilles Dartiguelongue <eva@g.o> (12 Apr 2008)
23 > # Masking gnome-system-tools because it is broken,
24 > # to help fix it, see bug #214265
25 >
26
27 emerge normally tells you the package that requires the masked
28 dependency. Does adding --verbose give any more detail?
29
30 Do you have anything in /etc/portage/package.unmask that may affect this?
31 If not, you have found a bug in the tree, because non-masked packages
32 shouldn't depend on masked ones.
33
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36 Neil Bothwick
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