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From: BRM <bm_witness@yahoo.com>
To: Users Gentoo <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22...
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:09:37 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490366.10796.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> (raw)

I have a system that I'm just bringing back online after a few months down due to hardware issues and lack of resources to get new hardware.

Some things are going okay - I got it past the e2fsprogs/e2fsprogs-lib update fiasco (after hosing it and using GRML to get it back up).
However, I'm now stuck.

emerge world -vuDN won't complete because a package can't use "java-config", complaining about python-updater needing to be run.
However, python-updater won't run because the of blocks due to software being outdated and masked.

So it's a catch-22. I need to install a new java-config and other software before I can get python-updater to run, but the emerge won't go through without running python-updater for at least one package.

Any ideas on how to resolve?

TIA,

Ben




             reply	other threads:[~2008-10-31 13:09 UTC|newest]

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2008-10-31 13:09 BRM [this message]
2008-10-31 13:13 ` [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22 James Homuth

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