-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allan Gottlieb wrote: > Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced > a long list of packages to merge. Fine. > > At the end it says > > Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: > 223,796 kB > Conflict: 3 blocks > Portage tree and overlays: > [0] /usr/portage > [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] > > Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume > this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are > nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like > to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these. > > thanks, > allan >
It should be ok, and as there are "3 blocks", you will probably find three instances of "[blocks b ]" (note the lowercase "b"), which are automatically resolved (usually) by an "[unmerge ]" line further down (or up, if you are using --tree). This corresponds to the new behavior, which automatically fixes problems like the old e2fsprogs/com_err/ss/e2fsprogs-libs blocker, without breaking anything (well, the system may be in an inconsistent state if you loose power at *exactly* the wrong time, but that can happen anyway during a merge, even without this new behavior). PS: I hope I didn't ramble on too much... this was going to be much longer, and less coherent. - -- ABCD -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkm+35EACgkQOypDUo0oQOpZ9ACeKsemyDPiGoB6ndNNSA2KU6qP a40AoLZuz6X72pIC4L4lREs7AIb/Muo2 =ilvV -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
