[gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi list, this probably isn't new but i didnt find any reference to it on the web and in the mailing list archives, so i'd like to apologize in advance to repost a possibly long answered question. when i try to emerge system --deep --newuse -upv portage tells me this: These are the packages that I would merge, in order: snip Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) [ebuild U ] sys-libs/zlib-1.2.3 [1.2.2] -build 415 kB [...] snap but when i then try to unmerge firefox (emerge unmerge mozilla-firefox) this is what i get: snip These are the packages that I would unmerge: www-client/mozilla-firefox selected: 1.0_pre-r2 protected: none omitted: none 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. snap how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? and even more important: how do i resolve this issue? just unmerge the version of firefox that is installed? i'm not absolutely sure, but AFAIK this has happened before and just unmerging the installed version of the blocking program did not resolve the block on the not installed version. any help is appreciated! best regards, alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6MEiw4sGV/pPyAwRApBDAJ99b+BiO0wjLMlX2Ef2z9TBjfGkegCfURf7 yLBMc9pSKgEGgscDN7J6pqI= =nyl5 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype. but when i then try to unmerge firefox (emerge unmerge mozilla-firefox) this is what i get: snip These are the packages that I would unmerge: www-client/mozilla-firefox selected: 1.0_pre-r2 ...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3. how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking. and even more important: how do i resolve this issue? just unmerge the version of firefox that is installed? or update your firefox to a newer version. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janne Johansson wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype. oh! but why doesn't it say so? [...] ...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3. how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking. that certainly explains a lot! or update your firefox to a newer version. already tried that. it wont build because of unmet dependencies. but i know what to do now. thanks a lot! alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6MVUw4sGV/pPyAwRApx8AJ0bGsGVX6PtKZUrXgLzzr3/5wHGSACcDaSE dPH6UpbNJ0qcenllClgg5is= =UEG0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:45 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janne Johansson wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype. oh! but why doesn't it say so? I think it's trying to with the little '' character before the name of the blocking software. It's really easy to miss though. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Meyer wrote: Janne Johansson wrote: how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking. BTW: unmerging the installed version of firefox worked fine. now my emerge system is running with no problems so far. thanks again! alexander -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFC6Mndw4sGV/pPyAwRAvcjAJ4jfWwngF1FOaoPc5D1rIfVS0SDdgCbBEPb EMU9BoifY1sJcIgI8LdM5/I= =3R7A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
