On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > On Sun, Dec 18 2011, Joshua Murphy wrote: > >> On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >>> I get dependency problems in my normal update world that I can't >>> understand. The entire output is below. >>> >>> As far as I can tell gnome-2.32.1-r1 (which is installed) is requiring >>> packages from gnome-3, which must be wrong. I don't see any such >>> dependencies in the ebuild for gnome-2.32.1-r1 and there is an "official >>> mask list" (which I am using) for those of us who want to >>> delay installing gnome-3 for a while. >>> >>> My conclusion that gnome-2... is requiring gnome-3 packages (which I >>> know is wrong) comes from two points in the output below. >>> >>> 1. The indenting of the --tree --verbose output seems to say this >>> (e.g., the first two lines say gnome-2... depends on nautilus-3) >>> >>> 2. The comments related to mask changes at the bottom say >>> evince-3... is required by gnome-2... >>> >>> Please help. >>> thanks, >>> allan >> >> >> Without doing any digging (I'm 100mi away from my Gentoo boxes and >> sitting on satellite internet, so SSH is painful), I would presume the >> packages pulling in those dependencies aren't specifying a maximum >> version, so it's not that they're "requiring" gnome 3 packages, >> they're requiring gnome packages and are choosing to use the newest, >> which happens to be part of 3, meaning the gnome 2 ebuilds would need >> updated to require version < 3.0 to avoid it automatically, and >> possibly block on mixing 2 and 3 if the mixing really does give >> issues. > > All the gnome-3 packages are masked (package.mask). > > Indeed, at the end of my output (see prev msg) you see recommendations > from emerge for me to remove some masks. > > allan
It was more subtle than I thought. A big tip from Alexandre Rostovtsev suggested that the problem might be that some package other than gnome-base/gnome might be requiring nautilus-3 *OR introspection*. Sure enough the new evince was the culprit. I put in a workaround for today but everything should be fine tomorrow due to ... From: Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> Subject: Re: [Bug 395173] gnome-light-2.32 shouldn't depend on >=x11-themes/gnome-themes-standard-3.0.2 To: Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:47:08 -0500 On Mon, Dec 19 2011, Alexandre Rostovtsev wrote: > On Mon, 2011-12-19 at 10:59 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> The equery d command (with depth=2 or depth=30) shows no mention of >> gnome-3, but *does* show introspection. Specifically >> >> app-text/evince-2.32.0-r3 (nautilus ? >=gnome-base/nautilus-2.10[introspection?]) >> > Ah, that explains it. > > When we unmasked gobject-introspection in August, the introspection > USE flag was masked on versions of gnome-2 packages that were already > stable, including on <app-text/evince-2.32.0-r4 and > <gnome-base/nautilus-2.32.2.1-r2. > > Two days ago, evince was bumped to 2.32.0-r4 to fix a crash. > Therefore, evince-2.32.0-r4 became the first gnome-2 version of evince > that had introspection unmasked, and it wanted to pull in > nautilus[introspection]. But the latest gnome-2 version of nautilus in > portage was nautilus-2.32.2.1-r1, which had introspection masked. > Therefore, evince-2.32.0-r4 effectively depended on nautilus-3. And > since nautilus-3 and evince-2.32.0-r4 are both in ~arch, repoman (the > automatic script that gentoo developers use to check their ebuilds > before committing) did not catch the problem :( > > I have now fixed it by bumping nautilus to 2.32.2.1-r2, and have > alerted the other gnome team members to be aware of this issue. > > Thank you very much for reporting this as soon as you did! > > -Alexandre. Great. So tomorrow, my resync will find nautilus...-r2 and I will be able to remove app-text/evince -introspection from package.use. (That is the workaround I put in today to permit an update world to proceed without gnome-3). Case closed! allan