On Sat, Sep 10 2011, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote: > On Saturday, 10. September 2011 11:28:07 Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> My daily update world caused the merging of oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0 >> (after wonko explained how to handle a license question). >> >> But my next step is emerge --depclean --ask >> This wanted to unmerge the above package and, if permitted to >> do so, caused a subsequent update word to remerge it. >> >> I then wisely :-) refused the next --depclean's request to unmerge >> it again. As far as I can tell this would be an infinite loop >> >> allan >> >> ajglap gottlieb # emerge --keep-going --update --newuse --with-bdeps=y world >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >> >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> [nomerge ] dev-java/icedtea-6.1.10.3 USE="hs20 nsplugin nss webstart >> xrender -cacao -debug -doc -examples -jamvm -javascript -nio2 -pulseaudio >> -systemtap -zero" [nomerge ] dev-java/ant-nodeps-1.8.1 >> [ebuild NS ] virtual/jre-1.7.0 [1.6.0] 0 kB >> [ebuild NS ] virtual/jdk-1.7.0 [1.6.0] 0 kB >> [ebuild N f ] dev-java/oracle-jdk-bin-1.7.0 USE="X alsa -derby -doc >> -examples -jce -nsplugin" 0 kB > > icedtea is Java6. It want's to upgrade the *virtual* to java7. To get the > virtual satisfied portage installs the oracle jdk. > To get rid of this, just mask >= virtual/jre-1.7.0 and >= virtual/jdk-1.7.0 > until icedtea comes with a java7 version. Or stick with the oracle-jdk and > unmerge icedtea.
The java6 vs java7 is what I guessed was the cause (mentioned in a previous msg). But there really is a loop currently (at least if I keep both the oracle java7 and icedtea java6 sdk's installed). I let the loop go on again and it does indeed merge/unmerge/merge/ etc when executing emerge --update world emerge --depclean emerge --update world etc As you said unmerging icedtea icedtea-web virtual/jdk-1.6.0 virtual/jre-1.6.0 restores sanity. Thanks, allan
