[gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?
I am trying to emerge --buildpkgonly -u world, but it won't go: zebedee ~ # emerge --buildpkgonly -u world Calculating world dependencies ...done! !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. However when I only pretend to do it I get no errors: zebedee ~ # emerge --pretend --buildpkgonly -u world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.16_rc1-r2 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.7 [5.8.6-r1] [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r3 [5.8.6-r8] [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20051223 [20051113] ...etc...etc...etc... The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop, but could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting confused by the split kde metafiles again? Or does the problem lie somewhere else? Thanks people! Robert -- Robert Persson Conspiracy Bears: Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Persson wrote: The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop Generally, this isn't a problem because kde slots allow multiple versions of kde to be installed simultaneously. There is some documentation here: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml Zac -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD09J//ejvha5XGaMRAsHIAJ4u7MUgjETP5N38TNSdLWQJEU87JACeOkGT 2dyD5cude4tX6LrOkzZT7cg= =ltUt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?
On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:21:59 -0800, Robert Persson wrote: zebedee ~ # emerge --buildpkgonly -u world Calculating world dependencies ...done! !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again. Many dependencies are required at compile time as well as runtime, so the dependent package cannot be built until the dependency is installed. Building the package for the dependency is not enough. -- Neil Bothwick Q. How many mice does it take to screw in a light bulb? A. Only two - but it's difficult to get them in there. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --buildpkgonly world won't go: kde metapackage problem?
On Sunday 22 January 2006 23:51, Robert Persson wrote: The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop, but could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting confused by the split kde metafiles again? I don't know the solution to the buildpkg problem but moving to KDE 3.5 should not break your desktop. KDE 3.5 is slotted to install along with 3.4.3. Thus, while you will install 3.5, you will still have the existing KDE 3.4.3. -- Regards, Abhay pgpWBaMTdfVMA.pgp Description: PGP signature
