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On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:51:03 -0500,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> On 08/12/2017 21:12, John Covici wrote:
> > On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500,
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>
> >> On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500,
> >>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote:
> >>>>> Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I
>
>
> [snip]
>
>
> >> No, I don't think you should revert the profile change. I understood
> >> from your mail than you had not done that yet, and typed accordingly.
> >>
> >> I think Michael is on the right track with backtrack - set it to
> >> something very high like 1000, see if that gets to a solution.
> >
> >
> > I did switch back, but the only way I could do a "successful" update
> > was to mask off 5.26 and then it skipped the update and would have
> > been successful. If I switch to the new profile, I can do nothing as
> > far as perl goes. I will show the output of just trying to emerge
> > below, it seems there were many many packages still requiring 5.24.
>
> No, that's not right. The tree is consistent and portage can figure out
> how to get from perl-5.24 to perl-5.26
>
> You probably have a difference locally, I would search through
> /etc/portage looking for entries that mask some perl modules and peg
> them to 5.24 versions.
>
> Failing that, maybe you have a package installed that depends on a 5.24
> version of some module and this is the ripple effect
>
> Perhaps run emerge with "--verbose-conflicts" and also "emerge -e world"
> and post the results
>
>
> > This is with the new profile and backtrack set to 500.
> >
> > instances within a single package slot have been pulled
> > !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
> >
> > dev-lang/perl:0
> >
> > (dev-lang/perl-5.26.1-r1:0/5.26::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > pulled in by
> > =dev-lang/perl-5.26* required by
> > (virtual/perl-ExtUtils-Manifest-1.700.0-r4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > ^ ^^^^^
> > dev-lang/perl (Argument)
> > (and 13 more with the same problems)
> >
> > (dev-lang/perl-5.24.3:0/5.24::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> > =dev-lang/perl-5.24* required by
> > (virtual/perl-Term-ANSIColor-4.40.0-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > ^ ^^^^^
> > dev-lang/perl:0/5.24= required by
> > (dev-perl/XML-Twig-3.520.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> > ^^^^^^^^
> > (and 260 more with the same problems)
> >
> > NOTE: Use the '--verbose-conflicts' option to display parents omitted
> > above
> >
> > It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
> > prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
> > possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
> > impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in
> > the dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can
> > not be installed simultaneously.
> >
> > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> > page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
hmmm, nothing masked as far as perl modules, I will look at
verbose-conflicts and maybe write down all those modules and start
unmerging and see if eventually portage can figure out something -- I
don't really want to do that, however I will look at the conflicts
and see what I can find.
--
Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
How do
you spend it?
John Covici
covici@ccs.covici.com