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 1Ru5AG-0005kQ-26 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 05 Feb 2012 16:42:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD97BE0692; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:41:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.desaster-games.net (dns1.desaster-games.net [188.40.122.227]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5DFFE063C for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:40:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.desaster-games.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id F175410285A4 for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:43:57 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Amavis at mail.desaster-games.com Received: from mail.desaster-games.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.desaster-games.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id KxC0LK4NlFsf for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:43:48 +0100 (CET) Received: from [10.159.0.8] (main.felix.desaster-games.net [10.159.0.8]) by mail.desaster-games.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 27F92102859E for ; Sun, 5 Feb 2012 17:43:48 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4F2EB10B.3020904@desaster-games.com> Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:40:43 +0100 From: Felix Kuperjans Organization: Desaster Games e.V. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120113 Thunderbird/9.0 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] Problem updating modutils References: <4F2EAF0C.6010409@libertytrek.org> In-Reply-To: <4F2EAF0C.6010409@libertytrek.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: f38247de-db8c-473d-89f5-13bfb859260d X-Archives-Hash: 85761496880f05acb870bd78890b91b9 Answers inline. Am 05.02.2012 17:32, schrieb Tanstaafl: > Hello all, Hello, > > Confused... > > emerge -pvuDN world shows (among a few others): > > [ebuild N ] virtual/modutils-0 0 kB > > No warnings about blockers or anything are evident. That is correct. > > 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 Look at this: you are emerging sys-apps/modutils, not virtual/modutils which *is* different (though such name clashes are quite bad). > [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 No, just update world as always, there should be no problem (not on any of my machines, no blockers etc.). > > ? > > Thanks, > > Charles Regards, Felix