Re: [gentoo-user] colord failed to upgrade

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 01/08/2014 10:07, J. Roeleveld wrote:
> On Friday, August 01, 2014 07:11:59 AM Gevisz wrote:
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>> On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 20:17:54 +0200
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>>
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>> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org> wrote:
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>> > On 31 July 2014 16:19:21 CEST, Gevisz <gevisz@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> > >On Thu, 31 Jul 2014 10:03:09 -0400
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>> > >
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>> > >Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
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>> > >> I can't comment on a long-term, real, proper solution, but for
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>> > >> right now
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>> > >>
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>> > >> emerge --oneshot dev-perl/XML-Parser
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>> > >>
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>> > >> should at least allow you to continue building colord.
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>> > >
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>> > >It seems that it helped, but not the suggestions from
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>> > >
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>> > > # perl-cleaner --all
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>> > >
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>> > >output.
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>> > >
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>> > >Thank you.
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>> >
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>> > Did you run the commands and then rerun perlcleaner as the output
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>> > mentions at the end of the text?
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>>
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>> No. I did not run perl-cleaner just after those 2 suggested commands
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>> because I had not noted that demand. So, my complaint that the
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>> suggested "long-term" solution does not work may be incorrect.
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>  
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> The claim is incorrect. I did what it said in the output and it resolved
> the issue on my systems.
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>  
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>> However, I run perl-cleaner after
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>>
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>> # emerge --oneshot dev-perl/XML-Parser
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>> # emerge --update --deep --with-bdeps=y --newuse --backtrack=60 --ask
> world
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>> # emerge --depclean --ask
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>>
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>> So, I hope that the problem was fixed.
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>  
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> It should be resolved now.
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> I don't add the "--backtrack" part.
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> It hasn't been needed for me ever since I started using Gentoo sometime
> in 2004. (Not sure when it got introduced?)



s/(Not sure when it got introduced)/$1 or even what it is for?/g

There ya go, fixed that for ya.

This appears to hold true for every Gentoo'er in the universe except <10
people in the magic $I_GROK_PORTAGE group.

I myself am not in that group.



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com