Re: [gentoo-user] poppler - how to update it elegantly?

[Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>]

On 09/30/2013 02:24:40 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 30/09/2013 13:55, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> > Hi, my most hated package is poppler. Each time in the past and now
> > again it's hard to upgrade.
> >
> > portage (2.2.7) cannot handle it, so I have to (manually) unmerge  
> all
> > packages depending on it and emerge them after
> > the poppler upgrade again.
> >
> > Has anybody found a more elegant procedure?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> > Helmut.
> >
> 
> 
> poppler packaging is a pita, but it's never broke anything for me (but
> does cause lots and lots and lots of stuff to be rebuilt...)
> 
> Yesterday's update worked just fine:
> 
> $ genlop -t poppler
>  * app-text/poppler
> 
>      Wed Sep 18 08:46:05 2013 >>> app-text/poppler-0.24.1
>        merge time: 33 seconds.
> 
>      Sun Sep 29 12:31:08 2013 >>> app-text/poppler-0.24.2
>        merge time: 35 seconds.
> 
> 
> What errors are you getting?
> Any customizations to poppler on your system?
>    (i.e grep -r poppler /etc/portage)
> 

First, are you using portage-2.2.7?
I haven't changed poppler nor its ebuild in any way.

Here is my problem:

emerge -vp app-text/poppler

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies   * waiting for lock on  
/var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile ...                 [ ok ]
... done!
[ebuild  r  U  ] app-text/poppler-0.24.2:0/43 [0.22.5:0/37] USE="cairo  
cjk cxx introspection jpeg lcms png qt4 tiff utils -curl -debug -doc  
-jpeg2k" 1,470 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] net-print/cups-filters-1.0.36-r2  USE="jpeg png tiff  
-perl -static-libs -zeroconf" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-tex/luatex-0.76.0  USE="-doc" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] app-text/evince-3.8.3:0/evd3.4-evv3.3   
USE="introspection postscript tiff -debug -djvu -dvi -gnome-keyring  
-nautilus -t1lib -xps" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] dev-python/python-poppler-0.12.1-r4  USE="-examples"  
PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 -python2_6" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] app-office/calligra-2.7.3:4  USE="crypt eigen exif  
fftw fontconfig gif glew glib gsf gsl handbook jpeg jpeg2k kdcraw  
kdepim lcms marble mysql okular opengl pdf ssl threads tiff truetype  
xbase xml xslt (-aqua) -attica -freetds -openexr -opengtl (-postgres)  
-spacenav (-sybase) {-test} -vc -word-perfect"  
CALLIGRA_FEATURES="author braindump flow karbon kexi krita plan sheets  
stage words" 0 kB
[ebuild  r  U  ] app-office/libreoffice-4.1.2.2-r1 [4.1.2.2]  
USE="bluetooth branding cups dbus gnome gtk java kde opengl vba webdav  
(-aqua) -debug -eds -gstreamer -gtk3 -jemalloc -mysql -odk -postgres  
-telepathy {-test}" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-minimizer  
-nlpsolver -scripting-beanshell -scripting-javascript -wiki-publisher"  
PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7 -python3_3" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7  
python3_3" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] app-text/texlive-core-2013-r1  USE="X doc tk xetex  
-cjk -source" 0 kB
[ebuild  rR    ] app-office/texmaker-4.0.4  0 kB

Total: 9 packages (2 upgrades, 7 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 1,470  
kB

and on a different machine portage couldn't resolve blocking itself.

I'll try this (big) re-emerge later on.
Thanks,
Helmut