From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L0KjF-0002H2-KL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DA680E0521; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABEABE0521 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:46:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id ABAFC213294 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:45:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671BF213291 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:45:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from [2001:638:605:eea0:219:66ff:fe86:ce12] (account wevah HELO energy.localnet) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.10) with ESMTPSA id 38786665 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:45:35 +0100 From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:45:32 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.90 (Linux/2.6.27.5r4; KDE/4.1.71; x86_64; ; ) References: <87od0komh9.fsf@newsguy.com> In-Reply-To: <87od0komh9.fsf@newsguy.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200811121945.32409.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V5.4 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: 04cb97a7-0f06-43ab-bf81-bf05eb7a6034 X-Archives-Hash: 00e8bcdad6c156c6aa6059fd0d63ac66 On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 different blocking problems. > > The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able > solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one > small part of the blocking. > > I've included below some long output from: > > emerge -vuDNpt world (to show the interdependence's) > > (sorry but this is some 600 lines long) > > Possibly some other flags to emerge would be more helpful. If so > please tell me and I'll post that as well. > > This output seems a little overwhelming but I hope someone who is used > to deciphering such output will take time to look at it and maybe see > how I can get started straightening it out. > > First a short look at the blocking lines: > > ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== > > grep blocking outfile > > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" > is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] > x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga" is blocking > x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt > ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix and you need all the videodrivers? I am sure not. So remove them and set VIDEO_CARDS in makec.conf. > [blocks b ] sys-libs/ss ("sys-libs/ss" is blocking > sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) [blocks b ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs > ("sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs" is blocking sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11, > sys-libs/ss-1.40.11) [blocks b ] sys-libs/com_err > ("sys-libs/com_err" is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) [blocks b > ]