[gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Nikos Chantziaras]

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?

Re: [gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Alan McKinnon]

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.


-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Mick]

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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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[gentoo-user] Re: world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 22/09/14 14:41, 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.

Since is seems like others also have this problem, I've opened a bug for 
this:

   https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=523486

[gentoo-user] Re: world update refuses to update xorg-server, works fine with manual emerge

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 22/09/14 16:38, 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. [...]
>
> 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.

Doesn't work for me. The default (according to the emerge man page) is 
10. I tried 20, 40, 100, 200 and even 500, but no luck. I then tried 
5000, and it still doesn't find the update.