Jonathan Callen <jcal...@gentoo.org> writes: > On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep >> --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the >> following message: >> >> >> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * >> installed at the same time on the same system. >> >> (sys-process/procps-3.3.9-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >> sys-process/procps required by @system >> >> (sys-apps/util-linux-2.25.2-r2:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for >> merge) pulled in by >>> =sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r3[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] >>> (>=sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r3[abi_x86_64 >> (-)]) required by (x11-libs/libSM-1.2.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> sys-apps/util-linux required by (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26:0/0::gentoo, >> installed) sys-apps/util-linux required by >> (app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.19.1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> sys-apps/util-linux[static-libs?] (sys-apps/util-linux) required by >> (sys-fs/zfs-9999:0/0::gentoo, installed) >>> =sys-apps/util-linux-2.20 required by >>> (sys-fs/udev-216:0/0::gentoo, installed) >>> =sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by >>> (sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.12:0/0::gentoo, installed) >>> =sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by >>> (dev-libs/apr-1.5.0-r2:1/1::gentoo, installed) >> sys-apps/util-linux required by @system sys-apps/util-linux >> required by (net-fs/nfs-utils-1.3.1-r5:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> sys-apps/util-linux required by >> (app-emulation/lxc-1.0.7:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> >> (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >> pulled in by >>> =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 required by >>> (sys-apps/openrc-0.13.11:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> <=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4 required by >> (sys-power/apcupsd-3.14.8-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed) >> >> >> I don't understand this message. What is blocked by what and why, >> and what am I supposed to do? >> >> > > From what I can see, it appears that the problem may be that you need > one of the following packages installed for sys-power/apcupsd: > > >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23[tty-helpers] > <=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4 > > You probably currently have an older version of sysvinit installed, > which satisfies that dependency. Portage wants to upgrade you to the > latest version of sysvinit, but you don't have a new-enough util-linux > installed with USE=tty-helpers, and you didn't tell portage it was > allowed to set that flag, so it doesn't know what you want to do about > the issue. > > The easiest solution is probably to add "sys-apps/util-linux > tty-helpers" to your /etc/portage/package.use.
There appear to be packages requiring various particular versions of util-linux, like 2.20 and 2.16, and there's no more recent apcupsd available, so at least version 2.23 is required. Something similar seems to be going on for sysvinit with openrc and apcupsd requiring different versions of it. -- Again we must be afraid of speaking of daemons for fear that daemons might swallow us. Finally, this fear has become reasonable.
