Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate
Sébastien MORAND schreef: pyrenees:~ # emerge -uNDvp world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-lang/php-5.0.5) [blocks B ] dev-php/php (is blocking dev-php/PEAR-PEAR-1.3.6) [blocks B ] media-libs/giflib (is blocking media-libs/libungif-4.1.3) [ebuild N] media-libs/giflib-4.1.3 +X +gif 0 kB [ebuild N] dev-php/php-4.4.0 +X +berkdb +crypt +curl -debug +doc -fdftk +firebird -flash +freetds +gd -gd-external +gdbm -gmp -hardenedphp -imap -informix +ipv6 +java +jpeg +kerberos +ldap -mcal -memlimit -mssql +mysql +ncurses +nls -oci8 +odbc +pam +png +postgres +readline -snmp +spell +ssl +tiff +truetype +xml2 -yaz 0 kB [ebuild UD] sys-devel/gcc-3.3.5.20050130-r1 [3.3.6] (-altivec) -bootstrap -boundschecking -build +fortran +gcj +gtk -hardened -ip28 (-multilib) -multislot (-n32) (-n64) +nls -nocxx -nopie -nossp +objc -static -vanilla 0 kB Total size of downloads: 0 kB pyrenees:~ # emerge -C dev-php/php media-libs/giflib --- Couldn't find dev-php/php to unmerge. --- Couldn't find media-libs/giflib to unmerge. unmerge: No packages selected for removal. You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 If you want to unmerge any or all versions of the package currently installed, letting Portage decide which to unmerge, the correct syntax is emerge -C php So what you typed makes no sense to Portage. Hope this helps, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate
You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 If you want to unmerge any or all versions of the package currently installed, letting Portage decide which to unmerge, the correct syntax is emerge -C php Ok, but this will remove php-5, and that's not what I want. I want to remove dev-php/php any version, but I do that (I think the right syntax to do it is emerge -C dev-php/php), I got the previous message, obvisoualy there is an inconsistence on my system: - To update a package that is blocked by another package is required - The required package is not installed. It looks like the point is php has migrated. The version 4.x and below are located in dev-php and the version 5.x and above are locate in dev-lang, so is there an inconsistency in the portage tree when unmasking php-5.x and above? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate
This is Gentoo's daft syntax again! What you need here is not # emerge -C giflib, as you would reasonably expect, but # emerge -C libungif I can't do that, libungif is required on my system. I'm pretty sure some programs won't run anymore if I remove it, but I can test anyway This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate
Sébastien MORAND schreef: You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 If you want to unmerge any or all versions of the package currently installed, letting Portage decide which to unmerge, the correct syntax is emerge -C php Ok, but this will remove php-5, and that's not what I want. I want to remove dev-php/php any version, but I do that (I think the right syntax to do it is emerge -C dev-php/php), I got the previous message, obvisoualy there is an inconsistence on my system: - To update a package that is blocked by another package is required - The required package is not installed. No, the right syntax to do that (remove php any and all versions) is emerge -C php There is no syntax that includes the cat-egory without both a version number and a mathematical symbol, such as emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 (unmerges all versions greater than or equal to php-5.0.5) emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 (unmerges only php-5.0.5) emerge -C dev-php/php-5.0.5 (unmerges all versions lower than php-5.0.5) emerge -C dev-lang/php is not valid, because it includes the cat-egory (dev-lang) without specifying a version. If you don't want to specify a version, only use the package name, without the category. If you want to specify a version, use a mathematical symbol (for precision, using =, , and either alone or in combination with each other), aand the version number. It looks like the point is php has migrated. The version 4.x and below are located in dev-php and the version 5.x and above are locate in dev-lang, so is there an inconsistency in the portage tree when unmasking php-5.x and above? Well, yes and no. If you ultimately want php v.5 on your system, unmerge the current version, then re-emerge =dev-lang/php-5.0.5, then see if it still blocks the program you are trying to emerge. It's possible that the block exists because of the php migration to a new category, and the program itself needs to be unmerged and re-emerged with the correct category, rather than a block due to functionality clash between the two programs. If the block remains, it's because the program you're trying to emerge either will emerge php v.5 as a dependency or the program replicates its function in some way, so unmerge 5.0.5 (again), and emerge what was blocked by it, then re-(re-)emerge php-5.0.5 (if you still need to do that). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
