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From: allan gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem with blocking packages
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:39:27
Message-Id: 878tkusn7g.fsf@nyu.edu
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem with blocking packages by Quico Jurado
1 On Tue, Jun 13 2017, Quico Jurado wrote:
2
3 > Hello list!
4 >
5 > I'm trying to update @world, and I'm getting a problem with blocking
6 > packages which I'm not sure if I understand. It looks like a circular
7 > blocking problem, but not sure.
8 >
9 > Here's what emerge is telling me:
10 >
11 > [ebuild U ] app-text/texlive-2016::gentoo [2015::gentoo] USE="X
12 > context detex dvi2tty extra graphics humanities jadetex luatex omega png
13 > pstricks publishers science tex4ht texi2html truetype xetex xindy xml -cjk
14 > -epspdf -games -metapost -music -pdfannotextractor" L10N="-af -ar -as -bg
15 > -bn -br -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en-GB -eo -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga
16 > -gl -gu -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -kn -ko -la -lo -lt
17 > -lv -ml -mn -mr -nb -nl -nn -no -or -pa -pl -pt -rm -ro -ru -sa -sco -sk
18 > -sl -sq -sr -sv -ta -te -th -tk -tr -uk -vi -zh" 0 KiB
19 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
20 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is blocking
21 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
22 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
23 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is hard blocking
24 > dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016)
25 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
26 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is blocking
27 > dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016, dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016)
28 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016
29 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016" is hard blocking
30 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
31 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016
32 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016" is hard blocking
33 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
34 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
35 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is hard blocking
36 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
37 >
38 > Total: 40 packages (36 upgrades, 1 new, 1 in new slot, 2 reinstalls, 2
39 > uninstalls), Size of downloads: 500,112 KiB
40 > Conflict: 9 blocks (6 unsatisfied)
41 >
42 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
43 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
44 >
45 > And this is the update command that I'm running:
46 >
47 > emerge -uvaND --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=100 @world
48 >
49 > Any help is much appreciated.
50 >
51 > Cheers!
52
53 This is bug 606730 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=606730
54
55 allan