From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUOEP-0003si-ST for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:48:46 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PCm2ur002570; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:48:02 GMT Received: from sa11.bezeqint.net (sa11.bezeqint.net [192.115.104.25]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9PCkEbs012487 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:46:14 GMT Received: from localhost (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by sa11.bezeqint.net (Bezeq International SMTP out Mail Server) with ESMTP id 8D9B033CB9 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:46:13 +0200 (IST) Received: from sa11.bezeqint.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (sa11 [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 08250-01 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:46:11 +0200 (IST) Received: from alpha.danarmak.homelinux.net (unknown [82.80.25.148]) by sa11.bezeqint.net (Bezeq International SMTP out Mail Server) with ESMTP for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:46:11 +0200 (IST) Received: by alpha.danarmak.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 1011) id A731C325DF9; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:31:07 +0200 (GMT-2) Received: from beta.danarmak.homelinux.net (beta.danarmak.homelinux.net [10.0.3.86]) by alpha.danarmak.homelinux.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F1B325DF6 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 15:31:01 +0200 (GMT-2) From: Dan Armak Organization: Gentoo Technologies, Inc. To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-7 emerge blocks Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 14:46:04 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.92 References: <435CED3A.1010501@pv.infn.it> <200510250045.39187.danarmak@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart8150764.9RdsT36obL"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200510251446.12225.danarmak@gentoo.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bezeqint.net X-Archives-Salt: c7a68b56-0f97-438c-9c68-81ec9f50cbdc X-Archives-Hash: 82b92555b9eea6e34054c2598c56515d --nextPart8150764.9RdsT36obL Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Tuesday 25 October 2005 01:45, Ferris McCormick wrote: > Well, maybe so. However that missing '<' is kind of important Indeed - and it has nothing to do with modular X. There are other ! , and when=20 > playing with X-modular, the portage output really looks like the modular > packages are blocking the non-existent xorg-x11-7. It's not a "matter of= =20 > using portage correctly" because portage is misreporting the (phantom) > problem. > > As I recall, it looks like this (for example): > x11-base/xorg-server-xxx [B x11-base/xorg-x11-7] > which without that little '<' is, shall we say, wrong. =20 Example output from the OP: [blocks B ] Since (so far as I=20 > know) it arises only in the X-modular context, this is the right place for > the question. (With '<' it's true but irrelevant, but portage is being > misled into believing xorg-x11 is required. R. Hill addressed that issue > in another post.) > > Or maybe it arises elsewhere too? # find /usr/portage -name '*.ebuild' | xargs grep -He '!\w*<' gives lots of results. xorg-x11-7 is probably the only case where the max version being blocked (7= )=20 doesn't exist. But that doesn't stop one from understanding the < blocking= =20 dep. =2D-=20 Dan Armak Gentoo Linux developer (KDE) Public GPG key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~danarmak/danarmak-gpg-public.key =46ingerprint: DD70 DBF9 E3D4 6CB9 2FDD 0069 508D 9143 8D5F 8951 --nextPart8150764.9RdsT36obL Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDXikUUI2RQ41fiVERAmpKAJ9Ra4K4Al/cRwpks81PecPPv3HilwCfdqsM AfXmc4bDWUCfQZdFdrlSdeE= =BGv+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart8150764.9RdsT36obL-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list