-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 03/08/2014 11:24 AM, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 3/8/2014 10:12 AM, Todd Goodman <t...@bonedaddy.net> wrote: >> * Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> [140308 09:46]: >>> 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? > >> 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. > > Thanks... so, since it is slotted, I guess my question about needing them > both is, yes, I need > them both (ie, don't emerge -C the older 0.3.1 version)... > >
You really shouldn't ever `emerge -C` anything, instead using `emerge -c`, which will refuse to remove anything that might break the system in the course of its removal (due to dependencies). In fact, if you want to see what you have that is keeping a particular package on the system, you can do `emerge -pvc the/package`, which will list the reasons why the package cannot be removed. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJTG2p3AAoJELHSF2kinlg445wP/0P8ji5HLOR1WOeSfjnOzhgF 1hjkjL7ciJrQkxWX6F4ZW/7b4VfiqCJM0RiKNZLlFyBjsINfnKZxGUHfm9ISE31p 4DbW8idMaf5RYETd4I1PFkhdDL1PptWFIK/2lkIWu38LwtbtBkgJqv/RbkayE72q lEkCKJgYRukiwsLbdkDc0LhLjcmbW6uteWvweClPxPPekvP3arFNiJBcoOoBFeA6 KQIli6GQlEEhs/Hf9tV4NA6tiikCI8al1/FWsqmOcoslpgaQBmTlbIKjRE6WYlVb tW59wLQskIcPJ6HQ3vscqu86m0DFPSvu1RbKYNK8dK20fW8AMjIl3cV/rsXsSPKr VphKCfyw4aD5ik9blVwTV3JHu4klh8z1V0w/UVJzt6pZmh7N5sXYdXmGys3wsJxd tyiwmxRi4k5OUAWq8e8ajVBzyJS4t4N9BFlBm2U+I2JYLytm1fszAwZrtRKmUAue 0Nd7dVEibuL7aVrXDQa4ztT5v/WMHP+gMeP3eKdDfkT2XBvPx+4C1A2An5eKaAHg zOJu6HjzFB56qajAoDqlcSOlkUJakW5xaluI+56MFWVEmmIx/ExX+UlNBmM+nAfm OfYCZ5DILphw69wJ0UfFwdVQHVr55WIJfr3tPEUC72u/RcGLvUQ8dFaqI37MhKn/ EUviJlPtENyeqGwX+EVZ =Scbb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
