From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF5C31387FD for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:32:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C3899E09F5; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:32:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 879FDE0942 for ; Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:32:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 64525 invoked by uid 3782); 9 Jun 2014 11:32:24 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (pD951A23E.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [217.81.162.62]) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Mon, 09 Jun 2014 13:32:23 +0200 Received: (qmail 3937 invoked by uid 1000); 9 Jun 2014 11:28:03 -0000 Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2014 11:28:03 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] emerge util-linx; util-linux and sysvinit block eachother. Message-ID: <20140609112803.GC3473@acm.acm> 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=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/1.1.12 (Macallan) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 0ef6d2b2-ffa4-4d4a-82b5-2ccb815f7a2e X-Archives-Hash: 061c7f44b168ba2f23f8d6237a34e918 Hi, Gentoo! The latest episode of my months long update saga. I do emerge -p --color y util-linux | less -F , and get the following on my screen: [ebuild U ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2 [2.22.2] USE="bash-completion%* pam%* python%* -caps% -cytune% -fdformat% -tty-helpers%" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7%* -python3_2% -python3_3% (-python3_4)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7%* python3_3%* -python3_2% (-python3_4)" * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be [blocks B ] =sys-apps/util-linux-2.23 (">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23" is blocking sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4) * installed at the same time on the same system. . The up to date versions of these two packages are sysvinit-2.88.r7 and util-linux-2.24.1-r2. Am I right in thinking that the first of these "blocks B" lines is saying that the latest util-linux is incompatible with the latest sysvinit - that util-linux needs _less_ than sysvinit-2.88.r7? This feels like a bug. What about the second "blocks B" line. It seems to be saying that the _old_ version util-linux-2.23 is blocking the _new_ sysvinit. Why is this comparison being done this way? This all seems crazy. Keeping Gentoo up to date shouldn't be this difficult. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).