On 2017-01-15 11:28 AM, wabe wrote:
Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I update my system:These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: app-text/xmlto:0 (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by (x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)Nothing to merge; quitting. I don't understand this because these versions are already installed on my system: [I] app-text/xmlto Available versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text} Installed versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text -latex) [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils Available versions: 1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc +perl} Installed versions: 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc perl) How can a package conflict with itself (same version)? -- Regards wabe
From what I can tell it's telling you that the xmlto package is too old. xdg-utils needs a newer version, and I suspect that it's marked unstable. If you unmask a newer version of xmlto the error will go away.
Dan
