Re: [gentoo-user] Re: And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin...

[Meino.Cramer@gmx.de]

Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de> [15-04-26 15:28]:
> Meino.Cramer@gmx.de <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
> > But the same script states:
> >
> > [I] x11-base/xorg-server
> >      Available versions:  1.12.4-r4(0/1.12.4) [m]1.15.2-r2(0/1.15.2)
> 
> The [m] means that you masked newer versions of xorg-server locally.
> If you remove that local mask, the blockers should be gone.
> Do you have a reason to keep this mask?
> If you must keep it, you will have to mask a lot of other packages, too,
> since they "want" to be upgraded but cannot, because they do not work
> with that ancient xorg-server.
> 
> 

Hi Martin,

I found that masks previously and removed them but emerge insists
of feeling blocked.

So I physically removed all blockers (emerge -C), update and
reinstalled what was not installed by the update later.

That works (finally).

Best regards,
Meino