On Thursday 10 April 2008 13:48:12 Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
In any event, when portage says A blocks B your options and always
only:
- unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later
- do not use A
I have always resolved A blocks
On Thursday 10 April 2008 13:08:14 Alan McKinnon wrote:
blocks is 6 letters. A semantically correct phrase is longer and takes
up heaps of line length. The emerge dev apparently favours brevity and
complete data over absolute descriptive correctness.
We're not dealing here with fine details
Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Because of the nature of a block, only one of the named packages can be
installed, so just unmerge that one, wherever it appears in the block
message :)
Is that always true? I seem to remember seeing cases where an upgrade of
X wanted to install A and
On Fri, 11 Apr 2008 13:15:20 +0100, Graham Murray wrote:
Because of the nature of a block, only one of the named packages can
be installed, so just unmerge that one, wherever it appears in the
block message :)
Is that always true?
Everything is always true, except for generalisations
I think it's bidirections. Becourse I got 'A blocks B' one, when both of
them weren't installed.(I was installing C,and I don't know why C
depends on both A and B).
On 14:55 Thu 10 Apr , Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08,
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:51 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote:
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
---
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's
blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall
gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
So let's be more specific:
emerge --unmerge
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's
blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall
gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
So let's be more specific:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead.
Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed.
ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find
On Thursday 10 April 2008, 09:57, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed.
ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
ebuilds...
I must be extraordinarily dense these days. I don't get it. How can a
non-installed
On Thursday 10 April 2008 08:30:21 Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Emerge clearly said that gtk-doc-am blocked gtk-doc, not the other way
round.
gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Peter Humphrey wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008 08:30:21 Iain Buchanan wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Emerge clearly said that gtk-doc-am blocked gtk-doc, not the
other way round.
gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells
On Thursday 10 April 2008, 12:56, Alan McKinnon wrote:
This is not sensible. If Uwe says A blocks B, it means that A is
getting in the way of B, not the other way around.
No, that's incorrect. I think you are attaching an incorrect meaning
to the output wording.
In this case, A's ebuild
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
If the word in emerge output was block, meaning generically there
is a block, an incompatibility you would be correct. But that word
is blocks, 3rd person singular, implying a subject and an object,
ie something blocks something else. Or, at
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Dale wrote:
It appears this human is a bit dense. I !think! I get it but not
real sure. May have to read that a few more times. Sounds like the
clue is the missing U and D part.
man emerge, the --pretend option has some useful info.
I usually find that I need to
On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
In any event, when portage says A blocks B your options and always
only:
- unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later
- do not use A
I have always resolved A blocks B problems by unmerging A. After that,
portage was not
On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
In any event, when portage says A blocks B your options and
always only:
- unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later
- do not use A
I have always resolved A blocks B
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:10:32 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
I usually find that I need to look in the ebuilds anyway to see what is
going on and get enough info to make a decision, at which point I'm not
looking at emerge's output anymore :-)
Because of the nature of a block, only one of the
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
So let's be more specific:
emerge --unmerge =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10 tells me:
--- Couldn't find
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
So let's be more specific:
emerge --unmerge =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10 tells
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote:
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
--- Couldn't find 'gtk-doc-am' to unmerge.
So let's be more
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 19:51 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
On Wednesday 09 April 2008, Dale wrote:
Uwe Thiem wrote:
Hi folks,
emerge --update world tells me:
[blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
emerge --unmerge gtk-doc-am tells me:
---
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