Oh, if someone does make emerge detect how to resolve the conflict, perhaps it should ask the user if they would like to continue with the unmerge/re-emerge. After all, it could be a critical system utility that is running.
On 1/5/06, Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok, so I get the output below when trying to merge after a sync today. > My guess is that the openmotif package was made into two separate > packages, correct? > > To the portage developers, how could this be handled? Perhaps emerge > could somehow figure out the reason for such a conflict, and then > automatically unmerge the original package? > > The fix for this was to "emerge --unmerge openmotif", and then > re-emerge it. Then I was finally able to do a system update. Do you > want this reported as a bug, or is it already? > > > [00:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] data] # emerge --ask --update --deep --newuse > --buildpkg world > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] =x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r3 (is blocking > x11-libs/motif-config-0.9) > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gcc-config-1.3.12-r5 [1.3.12-r4] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-2.18 [2.16] > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/cairo-1.0.2 > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/glib-2.8.4 [2.6.5] > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/atk-1.10.3 [1.10.1] > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/pango-1.10.2 [1.8.1-r1] > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.8.8 [2.6.10-r1] > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/libgcrypt-1.2.2-r1 [1.2.1] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.2.1 [3.0-r2] > [ebuild U ] net-analyzer/ethereal-0.10.14 [0.10.13-r2] > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/motif-config-0.9 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/openmotif-2.2.3-r8 [2.2.3-r3] > [ebuild U ] media-sound/alsa-headers-1.0.10 [1.0.10_rc3] > [ebuild U ] media-libs/alsa-lib-1.0.10 [1.0.10_rc3] > [ebuild U ] kde-base/kpdf-3.4.3-r3 [3.4.3-r2] > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/findutils-4.1.20-r2 [4.1.20-r1] > [ebuild N ] virtual/libstdc++-3.3 > [ebuild U ] app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.2_pre1 [0.2.1_rc3] > > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed > !!! on the same system. > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
