From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FBD4138E66 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:22:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 186E8E0A96; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:22:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-we0-f178.google.com (mail-we0-f178.google.com [74.125.82.178]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D817FE0A76 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 15:22:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-we0-f178.google.com with SMTP id q59so3872505wes.37 for ; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:22:32 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=zMSEJiMUs2teHL/Rcr7lUBSoQa/pdfqNCJV5UluyiiQ=; b=EG5OygyWJnvlSfKzmRQB1XI/7s5L7X25CAPARVRGlCr7AzRUOvBUi/WMMzCv8bvTGf 2q6L3tk6+lzE2rGqgdYBk5LXwFfTRWhh38xHw9pg8aSmYnIRNlrYRjjZlW1hhJQEfbOR OnFQLLgSb9ekgkIomeNBC5uGaap470+umWqopYMzisB00qcK3/DZX5ZNxpRUDoATeSjK WH9Q0W0xpOXTPaQ+oXwjuxtwY1e+B3Ja2gVrM3hRVO4z7/dUgke+Db4Kr+0OeuFE1bqC 2efqxhTm6zTD7tbQbU+MwdlP8Df59Txt2+lqvRd5B8W9W5Hgc3K+hxw1H3BJOe7z1N8u Vupw== X-Received: by 10.180.189.169 with SMTP id gj9mr10526600wic.17.1393168952485; Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:22:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (196-210-127-208.dynamic.isadsl.co.za. [196.210.127.208]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id f1sm15834675wik.1.2014.02.23.07.22.31 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 23 Feb 2014 07:22:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <530A1227.1080300@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 17:22:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.3.0 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] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please. References: <20140222211505.GB2639@acm.acm> <53091F57.1020106@gmail.com> <20140223121300.GC3191@acm.acm> In-Reply-To: <20140223121300.GC3191@acm.acm> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 6bcf37e8-6c4b-4938-a32e-1ebd6ab59a7f X-Archives-Hash: e277667b3cf3e458e91dad8436b2b3a2 On 23/02/2014 14:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> - are you sure that's an emerge failure and not just a convoluted info >> > message? Perhaps post the entire emerge output. > I tried it again without the -p, and got the same output. > > I think this is a portage bug. At the very least, it's poor > documentation. I've reported the situation to bugs.gentoo.org, bug > #502236. > > Thanks for the help. > I don't think you have a portage bug as such (other than the sloppy bizarre output messages that are going into recent versions). I think we have bug in an ebuild, probably a maintainer that doesn't quite know how to navigate these new subslots waters, One of the other replies suggested to unmerge libpng, emerge it back, and continue with emerge world, @preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild. Chances are this will work around the issue and let you update everything. There *is* a chance some package(s) won't work with or won't compile with libpng[1] and you'll have to unwind things again. If this happens that will be valuable info to add the entry at bgo [1] This happened to me at least once before, I had to package.mask the latest version of the library until the tree sorted itself out. IIRC, it was libpng then too! -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com