Re: [gentoo-user] udev-197 vs udev-200??

[Mark David Dumlao]

On 03/30/2013 11:24 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, I don't understand this... Why is it that when I comment out the package.mask entries for udev: #>=sys-fs/udev-181 #>=virtual/udev-181 emerge -pvuND world shows updates to udev-197, with no mention of udev-200, but... when I uncomment them: >=sys-fs/udev-181 >=virtual/udev-181 emerge -pvuDN world shows updates to BOTH virtual/udev-197-r2 *and* udev-200, with strange Blockers referencing udev-186??? [ebuild     U #] sys-fs/udev-200 [171-r10] USE="acl%* firmware-loader%* kmod%* openrc%* -doc% -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap (-selinux) -static-libs% (-action_modeswitch%) (-build%) (-debug%) (-edd%) (-extras%) (-floppy%) (-rule_generator%*) (-test%)" 2,063 kB [ebuild     U #] virtual/udev-197-r2 [171] USE="kmod -gudev -hwdb -introspection -keymap (-selinux) -static-libs" 0 kB [ebuild  N    ~] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-25  5 kB ... [blocks B      ] <sys-fs/udev-186 ("<sys-fs/udev-186" is blocking sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-25) [blocks B      ] sys-apps/module-init-tools ("sys-apps/module-init-tools" is blocking sys-apps/kmod-12-r1) [blocks B      ] sys-apps/kmod ("sys-apps/kmod" is blocking sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.16-r2) My reading is: there are some packages either in your tree or being pulled in that require a later version of udev. So even if you mask udev-197, it's still being pulled in by something else.  You have to uninstall / mask those package versions as well. How they got there or what they are, I don't know. If you're unlucky that might just be because the portage tree was in the middle of syncing... As for 186, emerge is hilariously tripping all over itself here. sys-fs/udev is being upgraded, but it requires udev-init-scripts to be installed. And udev-init-scripts conflicts with older versions of udev which is installed, so... Try increasing the backtrack to see if emerge can resolve it automatically. --backtrack=30. If it can't, the canon advice would be to manually uninstall (emerge -C --deselect=n) the older version before installing the newer one.