Re: [gentoo-user] Updating world

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Sunday 27 March 2011 18:50:36 CJoeB wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> See output below.  I understand what this is telling me.  However, the
> issue is if I unmask libkexiv2 and kipi-plugins, I get further messages
> about some other kde package that is masked by ~x86 keyword.  And this
> goes on continuously.


I suspect a dodgy entry in /etc/portage somewhere.

What's the output of:

grep -r libkexiv2 /etc/portage*
grep ACCEPT_KEYWORDS /etc/make.conf

> 
> If I do emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world, the second
> set of output is provided and this causes other problems - for instance,
> there are a whole whack of packages that depend on gettext.
> 
> I haven't been able to update my system in well over a month.  I keep
> hoping a sync will somehow miraculously correct my problem.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas how to get around this?
> 
> penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> 
> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5[aqua=]"
> have been masked.
> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> request:
> - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.1 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.6.0 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> - kde-base/libkexiv2-4.5.5 (masked by: ~x86 keyword)
> 
> (dependency required by "media-plugins/kipi-plugins-1.9.0" [ebuild])
> (dependency required by "@selected")
> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
> For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge
> man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----------------------------
> 
> penguinchick ~ # emerge --pretend --update --deep --skip-first world
> 
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> !!! One or more packages have been dropped due to
> !!! masking or unsatisfied dependencies:
> 
>    (sys-devel/gettext-0.18.1.1-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>    (dev-python/pygtksourceview-2.10.1, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>    (dev-vcs/git-1.7.3.4-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> 
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/attr-2.4.44 [2.4.43]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/bison-2.4.2 [2.4.1]
> [ebuild     U ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-0.80 [0.71]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-8.7 [8.5]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-libs/pam-1.1.3 [1.1.1-r2]
> v
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Colleen
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