[gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

[gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

[Alexander Meyer]

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hi list,

this probably isn't new but i didnt find any reference to it on the web
and in the mailing list archives, so i'd like to apologize in advance to
repost a possibly long answered question.

when i try to "emerge system --deep --newuse -upv" portage tells me this:

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

<snip>
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[blocks B     ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)
[ebuild     U ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3 [1.2.2] -build 415 kB
[...]
<snap>

but when i then try to unmerge firefox ("emerge unmerge
mozilla-firefox") this is what i get:

<snip>
>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:

 www-client/mozilla-firefox
    selected: 1.0_pre-r2
   protected: none
     omitted: none

>>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal.
>>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed.
<snap>

how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything?
and even more important: how do i resolve this issue? just unmerge the
version of firefox that is installed? i'm not absolutely sure, but AFAIK
this has happened before and just unmerging the installed version of the
blocking program did not resolve the block on the not installed version.

any help is appreciated!

best regards,

alexander
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

[Janne Johansson]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:

> [blocks B     ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
> media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)

What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_
than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.

> but when i then try to unmerge firefox ("emerge unmerge
> mozilla-firefox") this is what i get:
> 
> <snip>
> >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
> 
>  www-client/mozilla-firefox
>     selected: 1.0_pre-r2

...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3.


> how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything?

It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking.

> and even more important: how do i resolve this issue? just unmerge the
> version of firefox that is installed?

or update your firefox to a newer version.

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

[Alexander Meyer]

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Janne Johansson wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
> 
> 
>>[blocks B     ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
>>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)
> 
> 
> What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_
> than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.

oh! but why doesn't it say so?

> 
> [...]
> ...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3.
> 
>>how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything?
> 
> 
> It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking.

that certainly explains a lot!
> 
> or update your firefox to a newer version.
> 
already tried that. it wont build because of unmet dependencies. but i
know what to do now.

thanks a lot!

alexander
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

[Janne Johansson]

On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:45 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
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> Janne Johansson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>[blocks B     ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
> >>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)
> > 
> > 
> > What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_
> > than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.
> 
> oh! but why doesn't it say so?

I think it's trying to with the little '<' character before the name of
the blocking software. It's really easy to miss though.

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

[Alexander Meyer]

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Alexander Meyer wrote:
> Janne Johansson wrote:
> 
>>>>how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything?
>>>
>>>
>>>It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking.

BTW: unmerging the installed version of firefox worked fine. now my
emerge system is running with no problems so far.

thanks again!

alexander
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