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From: Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@×××××××.pt>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wrongly blocking an update
Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2023 10:03:31
Message-Id: tq0j17$89e$1@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage wrongly blocking an update by Peter Humphrey
1 On 2023-01-15, Peter Humphrey wrote:
2
3 > Hello list,
4 >
5 > Today's update of my LAN server failed to resolve a block. It said it couldn't
6 > emerge net-proxy/squid-5.7 because of:
7 >
8 > [blocks B ] <net-proxy/squid-5 ("<net-proxy/squid-5" is hard blocking
9 > net-proxy/squid-5.7)
10 > [,,,]
11 > (net-proxy/squid-5.7:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
12 > net-proxy/squid required by @apps
13 >
14 > That's all I got. No sign of what required <net-proxy/squid-5, nor of where
15 > the < had come from.
16
17 It came from the squid ebuild itself.
18
19 From a quick look (I might have overlooked something), it sounds like it
20 has to be manually uninstalled beforehand (so, precisely what you did
21 :-) ).
22
23 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834503
24
25 > The apps set does not specify a version, and no other package depends on
26 > squid, so I removed it with emerge -C, then restarted the update, which ran to
27 > completion.
28 >
29 > It seems to me that portage should have been able to do the same, and upgrade
30 > squid smoothly.
31
32 --
33 Nuno Silva

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage wrongly blocking an update Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>