Re: [gentoo-user] serious problems trying to go to new abi_x86_32 support

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

J. Roeleveld <joost@antarean.org> wrote:

> On 24 April 2015 21:37:21 CEST, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> >Hi.  So, I am trying to go to the new support for abi_x86_32, so I
> >unmerged all the emul_x86 packages (after doing quickpkg on them,
> >because I am a coward), and then it was complaining that I should run
> >emerge @preserved-rebuild which I did and every time I run that, it
> >gives me another package to change its use flag to add abi_x86_32.
> >After doing some 70 of those (a pain), I get to something which I
> >cannot
> >solve.  At some early point portage suggested that I run --newuse
> >--update when doing this, but now I am down to the following:
> >!!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
> >">=sys-apps/systemd-212-r5:0/2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]"
> >have been masked.
> >!!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> >request:
> >- sys-apps/systemd-9999::gentoo (masked by: package.mask, missing
> >keyword)
> >/etc/portage/package.mask:
> >#need that system because of older kernel
> >
> >- sys-apps/systemd-219-r2::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> >- sys-apps/systemd-218-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> >- sys-apps/systemd-216-r4::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> >- sys-apps/systemd-216-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> >- sys-apps/systemd-215-r3::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)
> >
> >(dependency required by "virtual/libudev-215-r1::gentoo" [ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "media-libs/mesa-10.3.7-r1::gentoo[udev]"
> >[ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "x11-libs/cairo-1.14.2::gentoo[opengl]"
> >[ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "media-libs/harfbuzz-0.9.40::gentoo[cairo]"
> >[ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "x11-libs/pango-1.36.8::gentoo" [ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "x11-libs/gtk+-2.24.27-r1::gentoo" [ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "www-plugins/nspluginwrapper-1.4.4-r3::gentoo"
> >[ebuild])
> >(dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
> >
> >If I delete the --update, I just get 
> >Calculating dependencies  ... done!
> >
> >Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB
> >
> >So, how can I fix this mess?
> >
> >Thanks in advance for any ideas.
> 
> Why do you have to add it for every package?
> I simply added
> ABI_X86="32 64"
> To my make.conf and that was the end of it.

I was thinking of that, but do I really want to have all those extra
libraries for packages which don't need them, I thought I saw a thread
on here telling me not to do that.

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