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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for media-libs/x264-0.0
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 21:12:05
Message-Id: 2196682.Urf0cKLSUD@dell_xps
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for media-libs/x264-0.0 by allan gottlieb
1 On Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:04:50 BST allan gottlieb wrote:
2 > (I have been offline for a few months and apologize if this has been
3 > covered.)
4 >
5 > I had not synced for about 3 months (fear of new, incompatible gnucash)
6 > but have now done so. Unsurprisingly my normal update world shows many
7 > entries and also unsurprising is a blocker (slot conflict). However, I
8 > am confused by the message which reads
9 >
10 > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
11 > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
12 >
13 > media-libs/x264:0
14 >
15 > (media-libs/x264-0.0.20170701:0/152::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
16 > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this
17 > slot)
18 >
19 > (media-libs/x264-0.0.20160712:0/148::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
20 >
21 > >=media-libs/x264-0.0.20130506:0/148=[abi_x86_64(-)]
22 >
23 > required by (media-video/ffmpeg-3.3.6:0/55.57.57::gentoo, installed)
24 >
25 > Why is this a conflict since the first one 0/152 seems to permit other
26 > solutions. Is the (unstated) point that the second one 0/148 is not one
27 > of the acceptable "other packages in this slot".
28 >
29 > Also I seem some advice. Should I be first working on this blockage.
30 > Or should I instead try to deal with some of the easy updates.
31 >
32 > thanks in advance,
33 > allan
34
35 Since you have the latest ffmpeg installed, this is how I would go about this:
36
37 emerge --depclean -a -v media-libs/x264
38 emerge -1aDv '=media-libs/x264-0.0.20170701'
39 emerge -1aDv media-video/ffmpeg
40 --
41 Regards,
42 Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] slot conflict for media-libs/x264-0.0 allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>