From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4CE1384C0 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:04:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5A2E21423F; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:04:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5540D141F3 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:04:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.9/8.14.8) with ESMTP id t7V94lE6018827 for ; Mon, 31 Aug 2015 05:04:47 -0400 From: covici@ccs.covici.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] a few blockers I can't figure out In-reply-to: <20150831095024.53f41ede@digimed.co.uk> References: <14864.1440994748@ccs.covici.com> <20150831095024.53f41ede@digimed.co.uk> Comments: In-reply-to Neil Bothwick message dated "Mon, 31 Aug 2015 09:50:24 +0100." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.5; nmh 1.6; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 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-ID: <18825.1441011887.1@ccs.covici.com> Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2015 05:04:47 -0400 Message-ID: <18826.1441011887@ccs.covici.com> X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-t7V94lCu008271 X-Archives-Salt: 638c508a-24c1-4872-a551-796278d31186 X-Archives-Hash: de973b2643a999c7c6e7da56163cc509 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:19:08 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote: > > > Hi. On my latest update of world, I have a few blockers which I am > > unable to figure out how to solve -- I will put the related output below > > with inserted comments. I am using "unstable" gentooand I have masked > > ncurses-6 for the time being. Portage also wants to downgrade my > > systemd from 221(0/2) to 219_p112(0/2). > > > > [blocks B ] sys-apps/systemd[gudev(-)] > > ("sys-apps/systemd[gudev(-)]" is blocking dev-libs/libgudev-230) > > [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit ("sys-apps/sysvinit" is blocking > > sys-apps/systemd-219_p112) [blocks B ] dev-libs/libgudev > > ("dev-libs/libgudev" is blocking sys-apps/systemd-219_p112) > > > You have omitted some important information before this, but the problem > you have is that something is trying to pull in libgudev, which is > provided by systemd and well, hence the blocker. Packages should depend on > virtual/libgudev, which avoids this type of conflict. Run the update > again --tree to see just what is trying to install libgudev. > > > Total: 75 packages (64 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 7 new, 2 in new slots, 1 > > reinstall), Size of downloads: 273,248 KiB Conflict: 3 blocks (3 > > unsatisfied) > > In this situation, with so many packages being updated, I try to reduce > the noise from portage by emerge --oneshot-ing anything in the list that > is not related to the blockers, it makes the tree output much easier to > work with. OK, I will try that, I thought it would tell me what is pulling libgudev in. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com