[gentoo-user] How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[gentoo-user] How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[John covici]

In my latest update I have received the following message:
!!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:

media-libs/win32codecs:0

  ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
  pulled in by
    ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
    @world

  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
  pulled in by
    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
    @world


It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in the
dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can not be
installed simultaneously.
 
Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
this?

Thanks.

-- 
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

[gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[Stroller]

On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote:

> In my latest update I have received the following message:
> !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>
> media-libs/win32codecs:0
>
>  ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
>  pulled in by
>    ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
>    @world
>
>  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
>  pulled in by
>    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
>    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
>    @world
>
>
> ...
> Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
> this?

I believe so:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html

I'm guessing that it's this that's causing the problems you describe  
above. You mentioned package unmasking, and this is recommended in the  
referenced forums post for those that require Real, but you might just  
try unmerging win32codecs & realcodecs & trying your update again.

I discovered this reorganisation because updating my system showed  
mplayer updating with the real USE flag being forcibly disabled, i.e.:
[ebuild     U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 [1.0_rc2_p26753- 
r1] USE="...  -radio (-real*) -rtc ... " 0 kB
Someone on #gentoo was able to help because they'd experienced the  
issue this morning.

It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these codecs  
are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram playlists &  
audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's statement  
"Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used  
anymore, and most people will be fine without them."

I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other Friday /  
Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can burn their  
shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the week. As a  
consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's ability to  
handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram without  
these packages installed.

Stroller.

[gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[John covici]

on Sunday 11/09/2008 Stroller(stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk) wrote
 > 
 > On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote:
 > 
 > > In my latest update I have received the following message:
 > > !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
 > > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
 > >
 > > media-libs/win32codecs:0
 > >
 > >  ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
 > >  pulled in by
 > >    ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
 > >    @world
 > >
 > >  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
 > >  pulled in by
 > >    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
 > >    ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
 > >    @world
 > >
 > >
 > > ...
 > > Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
 > > this?
 > 
 > I believe so:
 > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
 > 
 > I'm guessing that it's this that's causing the problems you describe  
 > above. You mentioned package unmasking, and this is recommended in the  
 > referenced forums post for those that require Real, but you might just  
 > try unmerging win32codecs & realcodecs & trying your update again.
 > 
 > I discovered this reorganisation because updating my system showed  
 > mplayer updating with the real USE flag being forcibly disabled, i.e.:
 > [ebuild     U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 [1.0_rc2_p26753- 
 > r1] USE="...  -radio (-real*) -rtc ... " 0 kB
 > Someone on #gentoo was able to help because they'd experienced the  
 > issue this morning.
 > 
 > It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these codecs  
 > are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram playlists &  
 > audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's statement  
 > "Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used  
 > anymore, and most people will be fine without them."
 > 
 > I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other Friday /  
 > Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can burn their  
 > shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the week. As a  
 > consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's ability to  
 > handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram without  
 > these packages installed.
 > 

Well, the forum post helped, except that package.unmask seems to be in
/etc/portage and I thought he had said it was in /etc/portage/profile
-- I will have to try things after the merge is complete.  I think I
fixed things so I am using the codecs from realplayer -- hope they
will work.

Thanks a lot for your help.

-- 
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

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 02:39:29 -0500, John covici wrote:

> Well, the forum post helped, except that package.unmask seems to be in
> /etc/portage and I thought he had said it was in /etc/portage/profile

Those are different files, you need the one in profile. This is because
the real USE flag is masked in your profile, and files
in /etc/portage/profile are used to override this. Note that the file is
package.use.mask not package.mask.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

I am Superconductor Borg, assimilation resistance is futile.

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Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[Stroller]

On 9 Nov 2008, at 05:01, Stroller wrote:
> ...
> It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these  
> codecs are actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram  
> playlists & audio files. One would assume so, except for beandog's  
> statement "Chances are, you don't need them anyway. The codecs are  
> hardly used anymore, and most people will be fine without them."
>
> I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other  
> Friday / Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can  
> burn their shows to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the  
> week. As a consequence later tonight I will be testing mplayer's  
> ability to handle http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram 
>  without these packages installed.

Radio 1 is still working perfectly here with USE="-real" and without  
media-libs/win32codecs / media-libs/realcodecs

Something like:
   mplayer -playlist http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram
should work fine.

Because I don't have speakers on my Linux box and because I want to  
keep a copy of the original recording, I actually -dumpfle, then  
convert that to .wav here, but this is just a variation on the above.

Stroller.

Re: [gentoo-user] win32codecs / realcodecs / amd64codecs (and the -real USE flag) was: Re: How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[jaeyoung lee]

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look this....
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html?sid=e44c9527cf38ebd470151d1452478d82

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>wrote:

>
> On 9 Nov 2008, at 04:09, John covici wrote:
>
> In my latest update I have received the following message:
>> !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
>> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>>
>> media-libs/win32codecs:0
>>
>>  ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
>>  pulled in by
>>   ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
>>   @world
>>
>>  ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
>>  pulled in by
>>   ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
>>   ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
>>   @world
>>
>>
>> ...
>> Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
>> this?
>>
>
> I believe so:
> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-713051.html
>
> I'm guessing that it's this that's causing the problems you describe above.
> You mentioned package unmasking, and this is recommended in the referenced
> forums post for those that require Real, but you might just try unmerging
> win32codecs & realcodecs & trying your update again.
>
> I discovered this reorganisation because updating my system showed mplayer
> updating with the real USE flag being forcibly disabled, i.e.:
> [ebuild     U ] media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1 [1.0_rc2_p26753-r1]
> USE="...  -radio (-real*) -rtc ... " 0 kB
> Someone on #gentoo was able to help because they'd experienced the issue
> this morning.
>
> It's not clear to me from this post whether Realplayer & these codecs are
> actually needed by mplayer in order to play .rm & .ram playlists & audio
> files. One would assume so, except for beandog's statement "Chances are, you
> don't need them anyway. The codecs are hardly used anymore, and most people
> will be fine without them."
>
> I have been thinking recently to record Pete Tong & the other Friday /
> Saturday night Radio 1 DJs using cron & mplayer, so I can burn their shows
> to CD-R & listen to them in the car during the week. As a consequence later
> tonight I will be testing mplayer's ability to handle
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/realaudio/media/r1live.ram without these
> packages installed.
>
> Stroller.
>
>


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Re: [gentoo-user] How do I fix multiple versions for the same package slot have been pulled

[Daniel Pielmeier]

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John covici schrieb am 09.11.2008 05:09:
> In my latest update I have received the following message:
> !!! Multiple versions within a single package slot have been pulled
> !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> 
> media-libs/win32codecs:0
> 
>   ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'nomerge')
>   pulled in by
>     ('installed', '/', 'media-libs/realcodecs-11.0.1.1056', 'nomerge')
>     @world
> 
>   ('ebuild', '/', 'media-libs/win32codecs-20071007-r4', 'merge')
>   pulled in by
>     ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/vlc-0.9.6', 'merge')
>     ('ebuild', '/', 'media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc2_p27725-r1', 'merge')
>     @world
> 
> 
> It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
> prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
> possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
> impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in the
> dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can not be
> installed simultaneously.
>  
> Are they doing some kind of strange reorg or what?  HOw can I fix
> this?
> 
> Thanks.
> 

All the real stuff has been masked by security issues which is probably
the reason for the blockers. Here is the relevant entry from
package.mask of the profile directory:

# Steve Dibb <beandog@gentoo.org> (5 Nov 2008)
# Mask realplayer, real codecs for security, upstream issues, bug 245662
media-video/realplayer
media-libs/amd64codecs
media-libs/realcodecs

So you may consider not using this packages anyway.

Regards,

Daniel


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