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From: Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo mailing list <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem with blocking packages
Date: Wed, 14 Jun 2017 05:36:06
Message-Id: CAJ1xhMUAzTb9==TGgxeF-hW7Az+m-26QEFjzLniBhoNJSiEckA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge update problem with blocking packages by Quico Jurado
1 On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:14 AM, Quico Jurado <quico.jurado@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > Hello list!
3 >
4 > I'm trying to update @world, and I'm getting a problem with blocking
5 > packages which I'm not sure if I understand. It looks like a circular
6 > blocking problem, but not sure.
7 >
8 > Here's what emerge is telling me:
9 >
10 > [ebuild U ] app-text/texlive-2016::gentoo [2015::gentoo] USE="X context
11 > detex dvi2tty extra graphics humanities jadetex luatex omega png pstricks
12 > publishers science tex4ht texi2html truetype xetex xindy xml -cjk -epspdf
13 > -games -metapost -music -pdfannotextractor" L10N="-af -ar -as -bg -bn -br
14 > -ca -cs -cy -da -de -el -en -en-GB -eo -es -et -eu -fa -fi -fr -ga -gl -gu
15 > -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -kn -ko -la -lo -lt -lv -ml -mn
16 > -mr -nb -nl -nn -no -or -pa -pl -pt -rm -ro -ru -sa -sco -sk -sl -sq -sr -sv
17 > -ta -te -th -tk -tr -uk -vi -zh" 0 KiB
18 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
19 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is blocking
20 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
21 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016
22 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016" is hard blocking
23 > dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2016)
24 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
25 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is blocking
26 > dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016, dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016)
27 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016
28 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langcyrillic-2016" is hard blocking
29 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
30 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016
31 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2016" is hard blocking
32 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
33 > [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016
34 > ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016" is hard blocking
35 > dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2016)
36 >
37 > Total: 40 packages (36 upgrades, 1 new, 1 in new slot, 2 reinstalls, 2
38 > uninstalls), Size of downloads: 500,112 KiB
39 > Conflict: 9 blocks (6 unsatisfied)
40 >
41 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
42 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
43 >
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 I ended up removing some of the packages reported as blocking other
54 packages, tagged 2015, as suggested in the wiki article [1], and was
55 able to proceed with the update.
56 [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Parts/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages