[gentoo-user] Re: package conflict on update

[Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com>]

Oh, if someone does make emerge detect how to resolve the conflict,
perhaps it should ask the user if they would like to continue with the
unmerge/re-emerge.  After all, it could be a critical system utility
that is running.

On 1/5/06, Trenton Adams <trenton.d.adams@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today.
>  My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate
> packages, correct?
>
> To the portage developers, how could this be handled?  Perhaps emerge
> could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then
> automatically unmerge the original package?
>
> The fix for this was to "emerge --unmerge openmotif", and then
> re-emerge it.  Then I was finally able to do a system update.  Do you
> want this reported as a bug, or is it already?
>
>
> [00:16 root@joseph data] # emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse
> --buildpkg world
>
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> [blocks B     ] =x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 (is blocking
> x11-libs/motif-config-0.9)
> [ebuild     U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r5 [1.3.12-r4]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.18 [2.16]
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2
> [ebuild     U ] dev-libs/glib-2.8.4 [2.6.5]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-libs/atk-1.10.3 [1.10.1]
> [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/pango-1.10.2 [1.8.1-r1]
> [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.8 [2.6.10-r1]
> [ebuild     U ] dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.2-r1 [1.2.1]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.1 [3.0-r2]
> [ebuild     U ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.14 [0.10.13-r2]
> [ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9
> [ebuild     U ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [2.2.3-r3]
> [ebuild     U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10 [1.0.10_rc3]
> [ebuild     U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10 [1.0.10_rc3]
> [ebuild     U ] kde-base/kpdf-3.4.3-r3 [3.4.3-r2]
> [ebuild     U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r2 [4.1.20-r1]
> [ebuild  N    ] virtual/libstdc++-3.3
> [ebuild     U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre1 [0.2.1_rc3]
>
> !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
> !!!        on the same system.
>

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