From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1Hw1IA-0005pm-V7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2007 19:35:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l56JXgOL008967; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:33:42 GMT Received: from shuttle.zlin.dk (port78.ds1-abs.adsl.cybercity.dk [212.242.227.17]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l56JQrPm000583 for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 19:26:53 GMT Received: from BA.zlin.dk (unknown [10.0.0.3]) by shuttle.zlin.dk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DA933006A for ; Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:26:53 +0200 (CEST) From: Bo =?iso-8859-15?q?=D8rsted_Andresen?= To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Updating the system fails Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2007 21:26:49 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200706062054.30570.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> In-Reply-To: <200706062054.30570.tcoulon@decoulon.ch> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3311262.aeqtlzgld6"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200706062126.52331.bo.andresen@zlin.dk> X-Archives-Salt: e31ebbe0-aa0b-4f79-9e02-d0ef12511817 X-Archives-Hash: abf630ccd8a4e54bc3902a2b40b47d07 --nextPart3311262.aeqtlzgld6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 06 June 2007 20:54:30 Thierry de Coulon wrote: > I've a somewhat old system (it was installed with 2005.1 at the time) that > I wanted to try updating. > > However, emerge --update --pretend world thows an awfull lot of blocking > packages, mostly x11-something, but including KDE, java and others. > > There is no question of unmasking all these packages, as has been suggest= ed > in another thread for one blocking package. That thread was the exception from the rule. Usually blocks mean that=20 something needs to be unmerged. The only reason I didn't tell him to unmerg= e=20 anything was because it was apparent from the output that it was not=20 installed. > Is there a way to say "try to upgrade all you can and we'll if it works" = or > does it simply mean the system is screwed beyond repair and a new install > is the only hope? Neither. You need to unmerge the blockers. Do make sure you get a clean upd= ate=20 complete and run etc-update (or equivalent) before logging out or rebooting= =2E.=20 There's a section on blockers in the handbook. Read it. =2D-=20 Bo Andresen --nextPart3311262.aeqtlzgld6 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGZwp88/kKEzmwNNoRAmBBAJ9CJKt7FVTTtEwAEbQjaVXDSjYyTgCeOCy/ bfxIclGdvnt79R12NseUETM= =0YXH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3311262.aeqtlzgld6-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list