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 1L0Xie-0002pQ-Qb for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:38:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9583BE033F; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from rv-out-0708.google.com (rv-out-0708.google.com [209.85.198.250]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6500CE033F for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 08:38:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by rv-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b17so794004rvf.46 for ; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:38:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CAbZyKHKkb/vO+78Yb5dAFY1EoEjqdRdll8VKrcJ5ko=; b=wEIl1/ceQKK5ak0GAP8Vy8Eui+KT5PjHxsdst1PKEekq3srXyIBaxxkoVuQhqAbQUY n3BRewWpO+5bwhcmXabLzjS2q9RohjDUEGSePyabqTbtBTT/02S8+V56qOHE7WIC4IG8 WqqtMSnfGevSgUKK0/C4ZIND50zc6lx5rlFXs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=uTrkRWekqp6d4Os8toZpqQtVAhPVPNntVv2PM7gVGod0jG6WcDyzSOTM35it2op5KX ow1jScunV1dfAF6XF4oCH86k/I2VE3XwbZrPzif9ESZsBExmzP+mcw8dA/RYLZvaLerE eg0coYcr1eH0CLDeHg74n9gDsKpZTeZIFk3QI= Received: by 10.141.52.5 with SMTP id e5mr5361463rvk.166.1226565505429; Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:38:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.92.127? (dialup-4.231.92.127.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.92.127]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b8sm30766840rvf.3.2008.11.13.00.38.22 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:38:24 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <491BE77C.5090008@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 02:38:20 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.17) Gecko/20081110 SeaMonkey/1.1.12 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block References: <79e3aefb0811122338j19e22e42m43ae586c47d4a58b@mail.gmail.com> <20081113080116.2cec324f@digimed.co.uk> <79e3aefb0811130013o90f87bbh3f29829a801d000d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <79e3aefb0811130013o90f87bbh3f29829a801d000d@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8b9098c7-1b68-4fc9-ae19-67f7a7d4d89e X-Archives-Hash: e513155f306539f0f4d574eb663d2452 Dirk Uys wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > >> Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to >> update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that >> version is blocked by the existing player. There are two alternatives >> >> Unmerge vmware-player then reemerge it. >> Upgrade to the latest portage, which handles these blocks for you. >> >> -- >> Neil Bothwick >> > > > ps. Will it be ok if I upgrade portage to an unstable version while > running a stable portage tree? > > Regards > Dirk > > > Yep. Dale :-)