From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KusZY-0006BW-8x for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:41:40 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 22A4AE0471; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.80.33]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 08C4BE0471 for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 17:40:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-4578d291.dyn.optonline.net [69.120.210.145]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m9SHelVa014557 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:40:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id 8472519D921; Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:40:42 -0400 (EDT) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync? References: <02e501c9391f$cf54cb60$a500a8c0@quan> <20081028172120.3b5084e2@rabbit.robbieab.com> <49074B7C.3080205@googlemail.com> From: Allan Gottlieb Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:40:42 -0400 In-Reply-To: <49074B7C.3080205@googlemail.com> (Daniel Pielmeier's message of "Tue\, 28 Oct 2008 18\:27\:24 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.3 (gnu/linux) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 2758b5cb-a859-4a91-9b6b-f4b190ebb137 X-Archives-Hash: 48f17cf1a4c8fe04fba35f5070c1b5f7 At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:27:24 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier wrote: > Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 >> "James Homuth" wrote: >> >>> During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were >>> waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and naturally, google, >>> but all I found were lots of the same error, and no information on >>> it/what's broken. Anyone else having this particular problem? The >>> block errors are below. >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/ss (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] >> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/com_err (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs (is blocking >>> sys-libs/ss-1.40.9, >>> sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9) >>> >>> This was during an emerge --update world. >>> >>> >> >> emerge -C e2fsprogs, ss, com_err && emerge -1 e2fsprogs >> >> e2fsprogs is being restructured, which is causing the problem. > > If you go the route of uninstalling things first, make sure that you > have the sources prepared as wget might not work for some use flag > combinations when you remove e2fsprogs, ss, com_err in advance. I have obtained the sources to e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-libs, ss, com_error via emerge --fetchonly. Am I correct in believing that emerge --unmerge will NOT remove the sources. thanks, allan