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To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20160417034515.GA4948@solfire> <20160417093654.GF4948@solfire> <57135B12.5040802@gmail.com> <19226124.QRP3vQdeOA@dell_xps> <20160417120950.GH4948@solfire> From: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <5714012E.2060907@gmail.com> Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 23:33:34 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.1 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 In-Reply-To: <20160417120950.GH4948@solfire> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: d2d92879-46b2-4ec2-9102-4dafbf893189 X-Archives-Hash: ab5696c646245e1678565e9f94a3645a On 17/04/2016 14:09, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote: > Mick [16-04-17 14:00]: >> On Sunday 17 Apr 2016 11:44:50 Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On 17/04/2016 11:36, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote: >>>> Alan McKinnon [16-04-17 11:08]: >>>>> On 17/04/2016 05:45, Meino.Cramer@gmx.de wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit >>>>>> after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. >>>>>> I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the >>>>>> path, but it seems that I am not supposed to understand this: >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >>>>>> >>>>>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>>>>> >>>>>> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB >>>>>> >>>>>> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a >>>>>> dependency conflict: >>>>>> >>>>>> dev-util/boost-build:0 >>>>>> >>>>>> (dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>>>>> conflicts with>>> >>>>>> =dev-util/boost-build-1.58* required by >>>>>> (dev-libs/boost-1.58.0-r1:0/1.58.0::gentoo, installed) ^ >>>>>> ^^^^^ >>>>>> >>>>>> !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied >>>>>> dependencies: >>>>>> >>>>>> dev-libs/boost:0 >>>>>> >>>>>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-util/boost-build-1.60*" have >>>>>> been masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to >>>>>> complete your request: - dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0::gentoo (masked >>>>>> by: ) >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> For me it looks like boost not beeing updated/reinstalled because of >>>>>> another version of boost, which depends on boost. >>>>>> >>>>>> HELP, I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody hee-eee-eelp uuuuuhhhh! >>>>>> >>>>>> Thanks for any HELP in advance! May the source be with you... >>>>>> Best regards, >>>>>> Meino >>>>> >>>>> Hah! That's one of those blockers that makes little or no sense. >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> boost has this dep: >>>>> >>>>> DEPEND="${RDEPEND} >>>>> >>>>> =dev-util/boost-build-${MAJOR_V}*" >>>>> >>>>> and boost-build does not depend on boost. >>>>> >>>>> So, logically you'd expect boost to want to upgrade to 1.60, notice >>>>> boost-build's dep and upgrade boost-build as well to match. But it >>>>> doesn't, because boost-build-1.60 is masked for reason. >>>>> >>>>> It really looks and smells like a bug in emerge[1] when updating world >>>>> where it considers boost-build first, fixes the version to use to match >>>>> current boost, and then can't find a way to upgrade boost. >>>>> >>>>> Solution would seem to be to emerge -C either of them and let portage >>>>> get on with it. Or upgrade just upgrade boost-build by itself then do >>>>> world >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> [1] I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "bug" as such, because nothing >>>>> in the spec requires a package manager to guarantee that it will always >>>>> find the best way to upgrade everything. It only needs to keep the >>>>> system consistent with the ebuilds it has. >>>> >>>> Hi Alan, >>>> >>>> thanks for your reply! :) >>>> >>>> ...and I thought it was me being too limited to see the real truth >>>> behind that what it is The Matrix. >>>> >>>> But it was only a deja-vu....oh wait! It was NO deja-vu ... no >>>> glitch in The Matrix...we had similiar emerge-ncies in the past. ;) >>>> >>>> I will see how far I can go...I was warned to use 060 of boost... >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Meino >>> >>> It reminds me of many years back with two packages that depend on each >>> other and portage couldn't deal with updating both at the same time. >>> >>> emerge -C got a lot of use back then :-) >> >> Don't forget to use -1aDv when you emerge boost manually as Alan suggested, >> unless for some reason you want boost in your world file. >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Mick > > > > Hi Mick, > > thanks for the warning! Will do so... :) -1 is fine, but don't use -D in that manual step; you do not want deep here. That happens later when you do a regular world update -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com