On Thursday 02 February 2017 00:21:29 Jörg Schaible wrote: > Hi, > > now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked by ... > nothing. See yourself: > - emerge tells me that boost is for whatever reason blocked > - I cannot find any entry for this in /etc/portage/** > - eix does not show any kind of mask for 1.62.0-r1 > - none of the installed packages show a condition preventing an update > > Any idea? > > Cheers, > Jörg > > ============= %< =============== > $ emerge -uDvta --changed-use --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=50 world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: > > dev-libs/boost:0 > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-util/boost-build-1.62*" have been > masked. > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your > request: > - dev-util/boost-build-1.62.0-r1::gentoo (masked by: ) > > (dependency required by "dev-libs/boost-1.62.0-r1::gentoo" [ebuild]) > For more information, see the MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge > man page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook. > > > > Nothing to merge; quitting. [...]
Hah! I had the exact same problem. And I solved it in the dumbest possible way: running the exact same emerge command repeatedly until the error went away. I *wish* I knew what the root cause is (actually, no, I don't), but that worked on two different systems. It can take a few retries, though (three on my laptop, IIRC, but just one on my desktop). HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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