* Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> [140308 09:46]: > Ok, I don't understand this... > > If I do an emerge -pvuDN world, it tells me I only need to update (among > a few other things) ONE version of dev-lang/python-exec: (2.0.1 to -r1). > > I then tried to selectively update just the kernel, and it complains > about python-exec-2.0.1 being masked, so I add that to the emerge command: > > emerge -pvuDN dev-lang/python-exec gentoo-sources > > This results in no blockers, BUT, NOW it wants to update TWO versions of > python-exec: dev-lang/python-exec 2.0.1 AND dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1 > (to -r1). > > First question is, why does a plain emerge -pvuDN world NOT want to > update both of these? > > Second questions is, do I even NEED both of these? Or can (or more > importantly, SHOULD) I just emerge -C dev-lang/python-exec-0.3.1? > > Thanks, > > Charles
Hi Charles, dev-lang/python-exec is slotted (I have slot 0 and 2 on my system.) I assume when you do the emerge -pvuDN world it only tells you about slot 2 because there's only a dependency on slot 2. When you ask it to emerge dev-lang/python-exec it tries to emerge for all slots (I'm not sure, someone please correct me if that's not what's happening.) But I had a problem where something using python-exec needed to be rebuilt. Run an emerge -pvutDN world (add the -t option to see the tree of dependencies) and look for what wants the masked python-exec. Then rebuild that manually. I'm running ~x86 btw. Regards, Todd
