From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Kvtl8-0004c5-3e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DCB30E042B; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6B70E042B for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FC816493D for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:48 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.451 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.451 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.148, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id iv2rU+64+VCC for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com (web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com [76.13.9.25]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4182364E5A for ; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:09:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 11483 invoked by uid 60001); 31 Oct 2008 13:09:37 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=fPBJa0TNeevkyBotOG45DCI/t9u6ZLwD49enxVajYrNk5m0cfnk9EMdNTMwXxMRyjr0OdSwkKmthPcmpDcamuSxnPQQkS7d+irWPCIjABcl0CurGf6EtSrlewkYrJ86K0VN8Kl4gZe80yKLFK9OZj7d7RrQ6UYtejvCVE+kyfCE=; X-YMail-OSG: w1oLadgVM1l0IXiWfhyf9d9VLrEYq39UWCDdfIVd9t6UvIeJelq3_3ybXHJ.xQQ7J_277CG6MJ62Cvw.DbNF_9wq_wgjcjLWI1l35IJxa5m_bcmUX.f.Ed30c4ILQ9VfUXBiofPezbeRzX2sL7H8niTuntMjdrEfM_u8HQ-- Received: from [12.52.185.66] by web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:09:37 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/1155.20 YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:09:37 -0700 (PDT) From: BRM Subject: [gentoo-user] Updating a system....catch-22... To: Users Gentoo 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <490366.10796.qm@web65405.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> X-Archives-Salt: 4f6ca217-bac3-41db-ba21-da394378d479 X-Archives-Hash: a8c7addfd15cc5f71ea91ae7d132c3b4 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