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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 19:27:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201409221927.46070.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5420264B.4010709@gmail.com>

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On Monday 22 Sep 2014 14:38:19 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 22/09/2014 13:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > When I run:
> >   emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world
> > 
> > I get this:
> >   WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a
> >   dependency conflict:
> >   
> >   x11-base/xorg-server:0
> >   
> >     (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild
> >     scheduled for merge) conflicts with
> >     
> >       x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.15.1= required by (x11-drivers/xf86-
> >       input-evdev-2.8.4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > 
> > and xorg-server is not updated at all. I didn't even know that there's
> > newer versions in portage. I'm on 1.15.1 and been running that for a
> > 
> > long time now, but there's 1.15.2, 1.16.0 and 1.16.1 available. If I do:
> >   emerge -1 =xorg-server-1.16.1
> > 
> > then it works just fine and it gets updated. But with a @world update,
> > nope.
> > 
> > What's causing this?
> 
> It gets stranger. I was getting the same results as you and did some
> experiments running emerge -p and --backtrack.
> 
> And suddenly, emerge -avuND world now works as expected. How's that for
> non-deterministic? I can only assume those weird magic dynamic depends
> are somehow involved and as such is worthy of a bug report.
> 
> You can also resync as xorg-server-1.16.0.901 is now gone from the tree.

Interesting!  I also got this on an x86 box, except that the problem was not 
with xorg but with chromium.  I'll try with --backtrace to see what I get.

Thanks for the suggestion Alan.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-22 18:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-22 11:41 [gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge Nikos Chantziaras
2014-09-22 13:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2014-09-22 18:27   ` Mick [this message]
2014-09-22 22:24   ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2014-09-22 22:21 ` Nikos Chantziaras

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