Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

[Alan McKinnon]

On 15/07/2013 21:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
> On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>>
>>> On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>>
>>>>> Just installed the base system and xserver. As I went to emerge
>>>>> xfce4 as
>>>>> shown here http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce
>>>>> emerge --ask xfce4-meta xfce4-notifyd, I got a slot conflict:
>>>>> sys-ath/pambase-20101024-r2::gentoo, installed
>>>>> sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2::gentoo, scheduled for merge.
>>>>>
>>>>> How do I resolve this conflict please?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> That looks like partial output, there's information missing that says
>>>> why the conflict is happening. Please post the output of (run as root):
>>>>
>>>> emerge -pv pambase
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://bpaste.net/show/114541/
>>>
>>>> emerge --info
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://bpaste.net/show/114540/
>>>
>>
>> Please don't use pastebins here, they go away.
>>
>> Post inline into the body of the mail.
>>
>>
>>
> Sorry about that. I wasn't aware of the policy.
>
> I haven't installed a mail client yet. Just installed twm and xterm.
>
> Is there any other way I can sent the info required to the mailing list?
>
> Thanks.
>


Don't worry about it. It's not really a policy as such; it's more like
the way things have always been done. This list is a treasure trove of
useful postings that the rest of the internet finds useful for years to
come, so the regulars have come to expect pasted output to be inline.

Here's your emerge pambase output:

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

Calculating dependencies  ... done!
[ebuild  N     ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5  126 kB
[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/unzip-6.0-r3  USE="bzip2 unicode -natspec"
1,345 kB
[ebuild  N     ] app-arch/zip-3.0-r1  USE="bzip2 crypt unicode -natspec"
1,258 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.100.2  USE="-debug -doc
-static-libs {-test}" 732 kB
[ebuild  N     ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r6:4.1.2  74 kB
[ebuild  NS    ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:2.1 [2.69:2.5] 434 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/nspr-4.9.5  USE="-debug" 1,130 kB
[ebuild  N     ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.8.5-r4:0/mozjs185  USE="-debug
-minimal -static-libs {-test}" 6,021 kB
[ebuild  NS    ] x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.4:3 [2.24.17:2] USE="X cups
introspection (-aqua) -colord -debug -examples (-packagekit) {-test}
-vim-syntax (-wayland) -xinerama" 12,554 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-auth/polkit-0.110  USE="gtk introspection nls pam
-examples -kde (-selinux) -systemd" 1,358 kB
[ebuild  N     ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r1  USE="acl pam
policykit -debug -doc (-selinux) {-test}" 101 kB
[ebuild  N     ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105  304 kB
[ebuild     U  ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2 [20101024-r2]
USE="consolekit* cracklib sha512 -debug -gnome-keyring -minimal -mktemp
-pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc (-selinux) -systemd%" 4 kB
[blocks B      ] <sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 ("<sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1"
is blocking sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2)

Total: 13 packages (1 upgrade, 10 new, 2 in new slots), Size of
downloads: 25,435 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)

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I suspect your original error was actually a conflict between shadow and
pambase and you probably snipped that part in error.

Try this first:

emerge -av1 shadow

it should upgrade shadow to 4.1.5.1-r1 just fine. Then:

emerge --sync
emerge -avuND world


and then emerge xfce (the original command).

If emerging shadow by itself gives an error, then just go onto sync and
emerging world, these days portage knows how to figure it's way round
all the conflicts (it wasn't always like that....)




-- 
Alan McKinnon
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