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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 07:38:49
Message-Id: 553C95FB.2070100@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin... by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 On 26/04/2015 04:06, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> [15-04-26 03:12]:
3 >> On 04/25/2015 09:07 AM, Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> A novice asks the master Emerge:
7 >>> "Is there Zen also in every upgrade, which will serve to Gentoo?"
8 >>>
9 >>> Master Emerge moved a little bit and spoke:
10 >>>
11 >>> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
12 >>
13 >> Hah!
14 >>
15 >>>
16 >>> x11-libs/libXfont:0
17 >>>
18 >>> (x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with
19 >>> <x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.0 required by (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r4:0/1.12.4::gentoo, installed)
20 >>> ^ ^^^^^
21 >>
22 >> Emerge is trying to install libXfont 1.5.1 but the xorg-server version
23 >> installed requires 1.5.0.
24 >>
25 >>>
26 >>> x11-proto/fontsproto:0
27 >>>
28 >>> (x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with
29 >>> <x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3 required by (x11-libs/libXfont-1.4.9:0/0::gentoo, installed)
30 >>> ^ ^^^^^
31 >>> <x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3 required by (x11-base/xorg-server-1.12.4-r4:0/1.12.4::gentoo, installed)
32 >>> ^ ^^^^^
33 >>>
34 >>
35 >> It can't upgrade fontsproto because the current installed version of
36 >> libXfont requires 2.1.3.
37 >>
38 >> Looks like all these messages are thrown because of libXfont.
39 >>
40 >>> The novice was buffled and did not understand a single word.
41 >>> He tries hard to circumvent any conflict with the master but
42 >>> finally he struggled and failed.
43 >>
44 >> Looks like Master Emerge was confused by a circular dependency it could
45 >> not resolve.
46 >>
47 >> Dan
48 >>
49 >
50 >
51 > Hi Dan,
52 >
53 > Thanks for your Koan! :)
54 >
55 > ...and the novice is confused still...
56 >
57 > I tried (after shuttong down X) to remove libXfont and fontsproto (to
58 > install it later again) but this does not help...
59 >
60 > How can I get out of this?
61
62
63
64 There is nothing to get out of, and there is no circular dep.
65
66 You have a few X related packages where the latest in the tree cannot be
67 installed just yet, so portage is going with earlier versions. It's
68 trying to tell you why, but doing a really piss-poor fucked up idiotic
69 job of it :-)
70
71
72 --
73 Alan McKinnon
74 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com

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