From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 895531387B1 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:30:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6363221C049; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:30:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from icp-osb-irony-out7.external.iinet.net.au (icp-osb-irony-out7.external.iinet.net.au [203.59.1.107]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D23BB21C003 for ; Mon, 21 Sep 2015 01:30:43 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AhIFADJd/1V8lbUR/2dsb2JhbABdFoMOVGkBtByLLoV5AoEoTAEBAQEBAYELhCQBAQQ6TwsNCwkVEA8BRzOIEw7JSwwghnOEfYUUF4QVBZVkhRGCboZVRocEDIk+iDljhBMsMwGJbAEBAQ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.17,564,1437408000"; d="scan'208";a="677695566" Received: from unknown (HELO bluering.localnet) ([124.149.181.17]) by icp-osb-irony-out7.iinet.net.au with ESMTP; 21 Sep 2015 09:30:41 +0800 From: Paul Colquhoun To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] update problems Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 11:29:25 +1000 Message-ID: <3517373.ctZ3c57aFk@bluering> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.10 (Linux/4.2.0-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.14.12; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150919210527.1930cf41@digimed.co.uk> References: <87eghucic9.fsf@heimdali.yagibdah.de> <20150919210527.1930cf41@digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: 753238bb-a169-4685-8735-dd89e584f06a X-Archives-Hash: 4699ab3842b0fc49b5b4e39b343e0f59 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 -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro