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From: Skippy <linuxgn2@××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg
Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2009 19:27:31
Message-Id: 20090807103927.1a093a40@gentoo-01
1 Hi all,
2
3 I would like to use emerge -D on my system, but it is pretty
4 consistently blocked. You can see an example of this below.
5
6 I think the reason for this is because I have masked Xorg. I'm still
7 running 1.3.0.0-r6. My last attempt to upgrade Xorg resulted in a
8 totally hosed system which had to be restored from backups.
9
10 Is there a way I can do a deep emerge and have the latest versions of
11 Xorg masked? Or is such an action simply not possible without
12 upgrading Xorg?
13
14 Thanks much, Skippy
15
16
17 -----------------------------------------------------------
18 skippy $ emerge -upvND audacity
19
20 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
21
22 Calculating dependencies... done!
23
24 !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
25 pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
26
27 x11-libs/libXrender:0
28
29 ('installed', '/', 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4', 'nomerge') pulled in
30 by >=x11-libs/libXrender-0.6 required by ('installed', '/',
31 'x11-libs/cairo-1.8.6-r1', 'nomerge') x11-libs/libXrender required by
32 ('installed', '/', 'x11-libs/libXcursor-1.1.9', 'nomerge')
33
34 ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.2', 'merge') pulled in by
35 <x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.3 required by ('ebuild', '/',
36 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6', 'merge')
37
38 x11-proto/renderproto:0
39
40 ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.2', 'merge') pulled in by
41 <x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3 required by ('ebuild', '/',
42 'x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6', 'merge')
43
44 ('installed', '/', 'x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3', 'nomerge') pulled
45 in by x11-proto/renderproto required by ('ebuild', '/',
46 'x11-drivers/xf86-video-vesa-2.2.0', 'merge') x11-proto/renderproto
47 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-drivers/xf86-video-fbdev-0.4.0',
48 'merge') >=x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.3 required by ('installed', '/',
49 'x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.4', 'nomerge')
50
51
52 It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
53 prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
54 possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
55 impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in the
56 dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can not be
57 installed simultaneously.
58
59 For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man page
60 or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
61
62
63 !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=x11-base/xorg-server-1.4" have
64 been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
65 complete your request:
66 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.3 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
67 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.6.2.901 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
68 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r7 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
69 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.3-r6 (masked by: package.mask)
70 - x11-base/xorg-server-1.4.2 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
71
72 For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
73 man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
74 (dependency required by "x11-drivers/xf86-video-mga-1.4.9" [ebuild])
75 (dependency required by "x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0.0-r6" [ebuild])
76 (dependency required by
77 "x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.1.1" [installed])

Replies

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Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] deep emerge and masked Xorg Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>