Re: [gentoo-user] re: multiple pkg instances within single pkg slot

[Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@gmail.com>]

On 07/15/2013 10:31 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 15/07/2013 21:21, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
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>> On 07/15/2013 10:17 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>      
>>> On 15/07/2013 20:43, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
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>>>        
>>>> On 07/15/2013 09:23 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote:
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>>>>          
>>>>> On 15/07/2013 20:12, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>>>> Howdy,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Just installed the base system and xserver. As I went to emerge
>>>>>> xfce4 as
>>>>>> shown here http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xfce
>>>>>> emerge --ask xfce4-meta xfce4-notifyd, I got a slot conflict:
>>>>>> sys-ath/pambase-20101024-r2::gentoo, installed
>>>>>> sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2::gentoo, scheduled for merge.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> How do I resolve this conflict please?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>              
>>>>> That looks like partial output, there's information missing that says
>>>>> why the conflict is happening. Please post the output of (run as root):
>>>>>
>>>>> emerge -pv pambase
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> http://bpaste.net/show/114541/
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>>>>          
>>>>> emerge --info
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>            
>>>> http://bpaste.net/show/114540/
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>>>>          
>>> Please don't use pastebins here, they go away.
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>>> Post inline into the body of the mail.
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>> Sorry about that. I wasn't aware of the policy.
>>
>> I haven't installed a mail client yet. Just installed twm and xterm.
>>
>> Is there any other way I can sent the info required to the mailing list?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>      
>
> Don't worry about it. It's not really a policy as such; it's more like
> the way things have always been done. This list is a treasure trove of
> useful postings that the rest of the internet finds useful for years to
> come, so the regulars have come to expect pasted output to be inline.
>
> Here's your emerge pambase output:
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies  ... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] app-text/sgml-common-0.6.3-r5  126 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] app-arch/unzip-6.0-r3  USE="bzip2 unicode -natspec"
> 1,345 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] app-arch/zip-3.0-r1  USE="bzip2 crypt unicode -natspec"
> 1,258 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/dbus-glib-0.100.2  USE="-debug -doc
> -static-libs {-test}" 732 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r6:4.1.2  74 kB
> [ebuild  NS    ] sys-devel/autoconf-2.13:2.1 [2.69:2.5] 434 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/nspr-4.9.5  USE="-debug" 1,130 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] dev-lang/spidermonkey-1.8.5-r4:0/mozjs185  USE="-debug
> -minimal -static-libs {-test}" 6,021 kB
> [ebuild  NS    ] x11-libs/gtk+-3.4.4:3 [2.24.17:2] USE="X cups
> introspection (-aqua) -colord -debug -examples (-packagekit) {-test}
> -vim-syntax (-wayland) -xinerama" 12,554 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-auth/polkit-0.110  USE="gtk introspection nls pam
> -examples -kde (-selinux) -systemd" 1,358 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-auth/consolekit-0.4.5_p20120320-r1  USE="acl pam
> policykit -debug -doc (-selinux) {-test}" 101 kB
> [ebuild  N     ] gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105  304 kB
> [ebuild     U  ] sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2 [20101024-r2]
> USE="consolekit* cracklib sha512 -debug -gnome-keyring -minimal -mktemp
> -pam_krb5 -pam_ssh -passwdqc (-selinux) -systemd%" 4 kB
> [blocks B      ]<sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1 ("<sys-apps/shadow-4.1.5-r1"
> is blocking sys-auth/pambase-20120417-r2)
>
> Total: 13 packages (1 upgrade, 10 new, 2 in new slots), Size of
> downloads: 25,435 kB
> Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
>
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> I suspect your original error was actually a conflict between shadow and
> pambase and you probably snipped that part in error.
>
> Try this first:
>
> emerge -av1 shadow
>
> it should upgrade shadow to 4.1.5.1-r1 just fine. Then:
>
> emerge --sync
> emerge -avuND world
>
>
> and then emerge xfce (the original command).
>
> If emerging shadow by itself gives an error, then just go onto sync and
> emerging world, these days portage knows how to figure it's way round
> all the conflicts (it wasn't always like that....)
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Thanks heaps.

I'll give that a whirl tomorrow and let you know how it went.