Re: [gentoo-user] update problems

[Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@andor.dropbear.id.au>]

On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:05:27 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:36:06 +0200, lee wrote:
> > emerge -j 8 -a --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y
> > @world
> > 
> >  * IMPORTANT: 4 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
> >  * Use eselect news read to view new items.
> > 
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > 
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > 
> > !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
> > pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> > 
> > dev-libs/boost:0
> > 
> >   (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> > 
> > merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages
> > in this slot)
> > 
> >   (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> > 
> > merge) pulled in by dev-libs/boost:0/1.55.0= required by
> > (dev-libs/librevenge-0.0.2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^ (and 2 more with the same problem)
> > 
> > dev-util/boost-build:0
> > 
> >   (dev-util/boost-build-1.55.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >   
> >     =dev-util/boost-build-1.55* required by
> > 
> > (dev-libs/boost-1.55.0-r2:0/1.55.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > ^
> > ^^^^^
> > 
> >   (dev-util/boost-build-1.56.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > 
> > pulled in by =dev-util/boost-build-1.56* required by
> > (dev-libs/boost-1.56.0-r1:0/1.56.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > ^
> > ^^^^^
> > 
> > media-video/ffmpeg:0
> > 
> >   (media-video/ffmpeg-2.6.3:0/54.56.56::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
> > 
> > merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages
> > in this slot)
> > 
> >   (media-video/ffmpeg-2.2.14:0/52.55.55::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> >   
> >     media-video/ffmpeg:0/52.55.55=[vdpau] required by
> > 
> > (media-libs/mlt-0.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> These are unimportant, it is simply portage telling you it is not
> updating some packages to the latest available and why. Personally, I
> believe this sort of output should only be shown when using --verbose.


There is an open bug/feature request for portage to be able to drop all these 
blocked/blocking packages (and their dependencies) and continue installing all 
the unaffected packages.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=476350


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