From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvtpE-0004mL-5I for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:14:04 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0BD8E0192; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from randymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (sd-green-bigip-145.dreamhost.com [208.97.132.145]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D25D0E0192 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:14:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from quan (76-10-130-2.dsl.teksavvy.com [76.10.130.2]) by randymail-a3.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0106185410 for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:14:00 -0700 (PDT) From: "James Homuth" To: References: <490366.10796.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22... Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:13:51 -0400 Message-ID: <0af801c93b5a$858c2720$a500a8c0@quan> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 In-Reply-To: <490366.10796.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Thread-Index: Ack7WhAZv0KeNFhJTYaBH5cc+sL84wAAEHpQ X-Archives-Salt: 4aafcb40-9a2e-4ba1-953e-c49354d30cd1 X-Archives-Hash: 1e1f1ba0480df0f3fdec28ced483cba8 -----Original Message----- From: BRM [mailto:bm_witness@yahoo.com] Sent: October 31, 2008 9:10 AM To: Users Gentoo Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22... I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get new hardware. Some things are going okay - I got it past the e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-lib update fiasco (after hosing it and using GRML to get it back up). However, I'm now stuck. emerge world -vuDN won't complete because a package can't use "java-config", complaining about python-updater needing to be run. However, python-updater won't run because the of blocks due to software being outdated and masked. So it's a catch-22. I need to install a new java-config and other software before I can get python-updater to run, but the emerge won't go through without running python-updater for at least one package. Any ideas on how to resolve? TIA, Ben Try running python-updater for one package at a time and see what happens? Once it gets past one or two it might not complain at you as much.