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 27241138C9D for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 07:38:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 12DFFE0919; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 07:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f179.google.com (mail-wi0-f179.google.com [209.85.212.179]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BCEAAE08FF for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 07:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wiun10 with SMTP id n10so59310350wiu.1 for ; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:38:37 -0700 (PDT) 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=Rz2fSk16u8EK1O1BXhCckrQqur/9MU/TwHR+pGaiYsc=; b=Ueuftn+4z5YO1ImWZuRBE507uChja3fZaLc3OKLRaXdIA2EhlRx4CwJ6X15QLQZJwP qQDcWKk9tGyVR7gjwm7GuzAMGlbNXpgG3Lbmrcef/sCay5OxOWBxZE0fd7FrsgdLr47Q Z0Mnd/giHqcATwdZ1vjjXoVHi31GwvZ8jkP2Q/r6g0pUn8k61H4E3KHvHm2MedYCjGTD tZTnOR5qIvD6E0LWTra0zohPxQk1HbQRLBqwMO5d8svCa2yPkz+mS4Fp1Iu+1hz8L5Ot 4IaMz/paVeQOV9QS3tVksLrKYS1g+vEFLrvXljmSiZvnndMjTFXEkIUKY0qQMaWGrife hG/g== X-Received: by 10.194.24.103 with SMTP id t7mr11954073wjf.15.1430033917687; Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [172.20.0.40] (105-237-53-151.access.mtnbusiness.co.za. [105.237.53.151]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id w5sm6290535wiz.11.2015.04.26.00.38.36 for (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 26 Apr 2015 00:38:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <553C95FB.2070100@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2015 09:38:35 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 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] And so the emerge spake: Let there be conflicts...and see, everything was chaos and sin... References: <20150425160758.GA32271@solfire> <553BF5F8.20008@gmail.com> <20150426020653.GA4390@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20150426020653.GA4390@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 4b06da79-5b71-45fd-a556-a1407747ff6c X-Archives-Hash: efe8491321d1fecea91e8c2365e1715e On 26/04/2015 04:06, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Daniel Frey [15-04-26 03:12]: >> On 04/25/2015 09:07 AM, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> A novice asks the master Emerge: >>> "Is there Zen also in every upgrade, which will serve to Gentoo?" >>> >>> Master Emerge moved a little bit and spoke: >>> >>> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: >> >> Hah! >> >>> >>> x11-libs/libXfont:0 >>> >>> (x11-libs/libXfont-1.5.1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with >>> >> ^ ^^^^^ >> >> Emerge is trying to install libXfont 1.5.1 but the xorg-server version >> installed requires 1.5.0. >> >>> >>> x11-proto/fontsproto:0 >>> >>> (x11-proto/fontsproto-2.1.3:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with >>> >> ^ ^^^^^ >>> >> ^ ^^^^^ >>> >> >> It can't upgrade fontsproto because the current installed version of >> libXfont requires 2.1.3. >> >> Looks like all these messages are thrown because of libXfont. >> >>> The novice was buffled and did not understand a single word. >>> He tries hard to circumvent any conflict with the master but >>> finally he struggled and failed. >> >> Looks like Master Emerge was confused by a circular dependency it could >> not resolve. >> >> Dan >> > > > Hi Dan, > > Thanks for your Koan! :) > > ...and the novice is confused still... > > I tried (after shuttong down X) to remove libXfont and fontsproto (to > install it later again) but this does not help... > > How can I get out of this? There is nothing to get out of, and there is no circular dep. You have a few X related packages where the latest in the tree cannot be installed just yet, so portage is going with earlier versions. It's trying to tell you why, but doing a really piss-poor fucked up idiotic job of it :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com