Re: [gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Mick]

On Monday 22 Sep 2014 14:38:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 22/09/2014 13:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > When I run:
> >   emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world
> >
> > I get this:
> >   WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
> >   dependency conflict:
> >
> >   x11-base/xorg-server:0
> >
> >     (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild
> >     scheduled for merge) conflicts with
> >
> >       x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.15.1= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-
> >       input-evdev-2.8.4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> >
> > and xorg-server is not updated at all. I didn't even know that there's
> > newer versions in portage. I'm on 1.15.1 and been running that for a
> >
> > long time now, but there's 1.15.2, 1.16.0 and 1.16.1 available. If I do:
> >   emerge -1 =xorg-server-1.16.1
> >
> > then it works just fine and it gets updated. But with a @world update,
> > nope.
> >
> > What's causing this?
>
> It gets stranger. I was getting the same results as you and did some
> experiments running emerge -p and --backtrack.
>
> And suddenly, emerge -avuND world now works as expected. How's that for
> non-deterministic? I can only assume those weird magic dynamic depends
> are somehow involved and as such is worthy of a bug report.
>
> You can also resync as xorg-server-1.16.0.901 is now gone from the tree.

Interesting!  I also got this on an x86 box, except that the problem was not 
with xorg but with chromium.  I'll try with --backtrace to see what I get.

Thanks for the suggestion Alan.
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Regards,
Mick