Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

On Monday 06 December 2004 09:07, Luigi Pinna wrote:
> Alle 00:52, lunedì 06 dicembre 2004, Bastian Balthazar Bux ha scritto:
> > emerge -pv sys-apps/sysvinit sys-apps/baselayout
> >
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/sysvinit-2.85-r1  -bootstrap -build
> > (-selinux) 0 kB [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.11.6-r1
> > -bootstrap -build -debug -livecd -static (-uclibc) 0 kB
>
> Barbara ~ # emerge -pv sys-apps/sysvinit sys-apps/baselayout
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pkg
> sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r6)
> [ebuild     UD] sys-apps/sysvinit-2.83-r1 [2.85-r1] 88 kB
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r6  -bootstrap -build -debug
> -livecd (-selinux) -static (-uclibc) 197 kB
>
> > strange, it seems that it's a feasible thing, try to upgrade
> > baselayout before, 1.11.6-r1 is the last one and than emerge
> > sysvinit, dont' try to unmerge baselayout, it's not a good idea.
> > Keep attention upgrading baselayout, it modifies a lot of
> > fundamentals in /etc so you will need to loose a bit of time with
> > etc-update or dispatch-conf.
>
> The started when I updated mplayer with this command:
> ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~x86 emerge -uD mplayer
> and it installed the new sysvinit too, now I can't remove yet this
> block!
> Any ticks?

Very bad idea. ACCEPT_KEYWORDS can be very dangerous to use from the env. 
Specific customisations via /etc/portage should be used instead.

To fix your blocking problem, first remerge baselayout and then unmerge 
sysvinit.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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