[gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Gentoo!

After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:

    [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
    [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE="introspection*"
    [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)

.  Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too
old for gnome-pty-helper"?

It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one
it's about to install.  In this case, can I just emerge vte "by hand"
first?

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Sebastian Beßler]

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Am 01.07.2011 12:39, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> Hi, Gentoo!
> 
> After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
> 
>     [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
>     [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] USE="introspection*"
>     [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
> 
> .  Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too
> old for gnome-pty-helper"?
> 
> It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one
> it's about to install.  In this case, can I just emerge vte "by hand"
> first?

Does portage solve that blocking or not?
What says emerge -auND ? Can you go on with emerge or not?

Normaly portage solves that by uninstalling the old version before
installing the new one.

Greetings

Sebastian Beßler


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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Alex Schuster]

Sebastian Beßler writes:

> Am 01.07.2011 12:39, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > Hi, Gentoo!
> > 
> > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
> >     [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
> >     [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
> >     USE="introspection*" [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
> >     ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking
> >     x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
> > 
> > .  Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is
> > too old for gnome-pty-helper"?
> > 
> > It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the one
> > it's about to install.  In this case, can I just emerge vte "by hand"
> > first?

I think so.

> Does portage solve that blocking or not?
> What says emerge -auND ? Can you go on with emerge or not?
> 
> Normaly portage solves that by uninstalling the old version before
> installing the new one.

Isn't that a thing that only the masked portage 2.2 does? I guess Alan stll 
runs stable portage.

	Wonko

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Alan McKinnon]

On Friday 01 July 2011 10:39:18 Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
> Hi, Gentoo!
> 
> After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
> 
>     [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
>     [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
> USE="introspection*" [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
> ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking
> x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
> 
> .  Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is
> too old for gnome-pty-helper"?

Yes.


> It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the
> one it's about to install.  In this case, can I just emerge vte "by
> hand" first?

unmerge vte and re-run the original emerge, prevents accidental 
clutter of world and saves time

or better:

unmask portage and install 2.2_some_huge_number_alpha,
ignore what your instincts tell you about rc and alpha - a project 
that hit 100 -rc versions and is now on 41 alphas is probably abusing 
the terms :-)

Recent portage just knows how to deal with these blockers and just 
does what it needs to do to make it work.


-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Sebastian Beßler]

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Am 01.07.2011 13:54, schrieb Alex Schuster:

> Isn't that a thing that only the masked portage 2.2 does? I guess Alan stll 
> runs stable portage.

That may be possible, I run unstable portage 2.2 without any problem (a
few surprises from time to time, but no problems) for so long that I
have totaly lost the knowlege what from 2.2 is backported now and what not.

But then, emerge -C vte && emerge -1 vte should do the trick.

Greetings

Sebastian


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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
> 
>     [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
>     [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
> USE="introspection*" [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
> ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
> 
> .  Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too
> old for gnome-pty-helper"?

Yes, but the lower case b means that portage will resolve the block for
you. The only reason it has stopped after reporting the block is that
you used -p.

Only blocks marked with a B require manual intervention.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper

[Alan Mackenzie]

Hi, Neil.

On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:

> >     [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
> >     [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
> > USE="introspection*" [blocks b     ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
> > ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)

> > .  Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too
> > old for gnome-pty-helper"?

> Yes, but the lower case b means that portage will resolve the block for
> you. The only reason it has stopped after reporting the block is that
> you used -p.

> Only blocks marked with a B require manual intervention.

Ah, thanks!  I just did an "emerge -uND world" and it worked.  My Gnome
still works too, thankfully.  ;-)

Thanks to everybody else who answered, too.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).