On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > OK, here is the requested output.
These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. Basic ideas of blockers; The output doesn't mean that you have such-and-such and it is causing a problem. What it does mean is that in the list of stuff portage wants to update, there are packages that conflict with other packages. They may or may not be installed already, that is irrelevant. The fact is that portage *wants* to install them, but *can't* ecuase of blockers. You have to look at the first field on each line between [] so get more detail: U means upgrade, R means replace, N means new (as in you don;t have it already installed), D means downgrade and nomerge shows up when you use --tree, a package to be merged will show the parents that are pulling it in, even if the parent doesn't need updating. p.s. Something went wrong with your mailer, it mangled line breaks and mushed the entire output into one huge para :-( So I've copy-pasted from the original instead. Hope this makes sense, I copied the parts that show the dependencies then the related block from the end, and done it for gtk-doc and gstreamer. I'm giving a lot of detail, as it is *vital* when using Gentoo that you completely totally and utterly grasp how the emerge output works and how to resolve blockers. [nomerge ] gnome-base/gnome-2.20.3 USE="accessibility cdr cups dvdr esd ldap -mono" [ebuild U ] app-text/evince-2.22.1.1 [2.20.2] USE="dbus doc gnome tiff* -debug -djvu -dvi -gnome-keyring% -t1lib" 1,610 kB [ebuild U ] mail-client/evolution-2.22.1 [2.12.3-r1] USE="crypt dbus hal ipv6 ldap spell ssl -debug -kerberos -krb4 -mono -networkmanager -nntp -pda -profile (-doc%*)" 30,227 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/libwnck-2.22.1 [2.20.3] USE="doc -debug" 672 kB [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-2.22.1 [1.12.3] USE="doc ipv6 ldap ssl -debug -gnome-keyring% -kerberos -krb4 (-keyring%)" 7,424 kB [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.9-r2 [2.12.8] USE="X cups doc jpeg tiff* -debug -vim-syntax -xinerama" 15,652 kB [ebuild N ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1 395 kB [ebuild U ] dev-util/gtk-doc-1.10-r1 [1.8-r2] USE="doc -debug -emacs" 0 kB [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) So, you currently have gtk-doc-1.8.-r2 and gtk+ wants to merge gtk-doc-1.10-r1 and gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1. Obviously, 1.10 was split into two packages (doc and doc-am) to make someone's life easier. However, one or more files from doc-am-1.10-r1 collides with something that came from doc-1.8-r2. Portage will not do this without serious intervention, otherwise package A obliterates package B's stuff. Solution: unmerge the existing version of gtk-doc: emerge -avC gtk-doc emerge world should later pick it up and replace it with the correct one. Check again once emerge world is complete if gtk-doc did in fact get put back. [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE="-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*)" [ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10] USE="X alsa dvd%* esd mad%* mpeg%* ogg%* vorbis%* xv -a52% -dvb% -ffmpeg% -flac% -mythtv% -oss* -theora%" 0 kB [ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 USE="-debug" 0 kB [nomerge ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 USE="-debug" [ebuild UD] media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.14 [0.10.19] USE="(-debug%) (-nls%*) (-test%)" 0 kB [blocks B ] <media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6-r1 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.19) This is similar to the above. portage wants to merge the latest gstreamer, but that conflicts with an earlier gst-plugins-ugly that you already have. gstreamer and it's plugins tend to come as matched pair but they can only be merged one by one, so something has to come off first before two new packages can go on. Easiest is to unmerge the plugin, as you have gst-plugins-meta which will put it back: emerge -avC gst-plugins-ugly ; emerge -av gstreamer gst-plugins-meta Run these and check the various outputs that emerge does the right thing each time, I can't guarantee 100% results. You'll have to compensate for my lack of a crystal ball by using your eye balls ;-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
