Hi Neil, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 14:47:29 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > >> > now I have an emerge mystery myself: It claims boost is blocked >> > by ... nothing. >> >> Same here. I don't know why, but the way I solved it is by unmerging >> boost and then trying the update again. >> >> When I unmerged both boost as well as boost-build, portage wanted to >> re-install 1.62. The only way I could make it work is keep boost-build >> 1.62 installed and only unmerge boost. > > All I did was "emerge -1a boost boost-build" and it worked fine, as it > has done in the past. Thanks for the idea. Yes, this works. Strange nevertheless. Cheers, Jörg