From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ru51h-0004R0-N5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:33:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 74BB9E0660; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:33:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a54.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8141E0618 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:32:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a54.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a54.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B7163A406D for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 08:32:13 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=libertytrek.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=libertytrek.org; b=H4bCm/cA/ A9bOvQCJgdXuVXJYslNSC7COiV9wZXMdZJlsYrCeoBDE/WIg0QQXqqlWTKzEWapT EHZQHl5ru2Pt8QO5twsjoRjmHMhwcDEIk6cz0URrh9EfToxwnKWGPwCOMgLjq6vC HKiMIYg6fZG+SnvXvIjJbroaMvMUvfw/D8= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; s=libertytrek.org; bh=i5m/hvNWFK1ksXC mHxGa/f+GaLU=; b=ftJs0WRXxY+f3qmwT9aoUId+nrdWYfpd+q2TDN0y4zF9oXT cmcbZlffDRGG3sG7F+0f+AveI8yZgKgBeZb82PC+7CrNtZ3dm0mw40UqsqzO/3Jl be5/muqo/EgAS3DDU1fQQh910VPrffJR5vGZHrIwpVcfV5ehBrsj7afKraVU= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (50-76-228-201-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.76.228.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a54.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 0BD803A4065 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 08:32:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F2EAF0C.6010409@libertytrek.org> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 11:32:12 -0500 From: Tanstaafl User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:9.0) Gecko/20111222 Thunderbird/9.0.1 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: [gentoo-user] Problem updating modutils Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6f2e6840-ef0c-439e-9820-dc9a6c812b6f X-Archives-Hash: c40cf87526f2cf34dbfb86b0368c63a3 Hello all, Confused... emerge -pvuDN world shows (among a few others): [ebuild N ] virtual/modutils-0 0 kB No warnings about blockers or anything are evident. However, when I do emerge -pvuDN modutils (instead of 'world), I get the following warning about blockers: myhost : Sun Feb 05, 11:12:24 : ~ # emerge -pvuDN modutils These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1 0 kB [uninstall ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r1 USE="-static" [blocks b ] sys-apps/modutils ("sys-apps/modutils" is blocking sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r1) [blocks b ] sys-apps/module-init-tools ("sys-apps/module-init-tools" is blocking sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1) Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Conflict: 2 blocks myhost : Sun Feb 05, 11:20:15 : ~ Then, when I try to perform the update, it fails with: * Package 'sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1' NOT merged due to file * collisions. If necessary, refer to your elog messages for the whole * content of the above message. >>> Failed to install sys-apps/modutils-2.4.27-r1, Log file: >>> '/var/log/portage/sys-apps:modutils-2.4.27-r1:20120205-161149.log' * GNU info directory index is up-to-date. myhost : Sun Feb 05, 11:12:24 : ~ I hate guessing about things like this, but I'm 'guessing' that all I need to do is: emerge -C sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r1 then emerge -vuDN modutils ? Thanks, Charles