Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

Am Sonntag, 10. Dezember 2017, 13:36:19 CET schrieb Kent Fredric: > as a sort > of bodge to compensate for the fact portage has no working "provides" > feature I'd just like to point out that, to the best of my knowledge, portage actually switched *from* a "provides" model *to* the virtual

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:36:19 -0500, Kent Fredric wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:17:09 -0500 > John Covici wrote: > > > OK, thanks, I think I will try that. > > The problem you're facing is that you masked dev-lang/perl, but not any > virtual/perl-* or

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:13:09 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 10/12/2017 14:54, John Covici wrote: > > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:36:19 -0500, > > Kent Fredric wrote: > >> > >> [1 ] > >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:17:09 -0500 > >> John Covici wrote: > >> > >>> OK, thanks, I

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:54:59 -0500 John Covici wrote: > I am using ~amd64 and have done so for > years, so I don't think I need to maks off anything. Sorry, I may have gotten my wires crossed. The impression I got was you were trying to stick with perl 5.24 The point

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 10/12/2017 14:54, John Covici wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:36:19 -0500, > Kent Fredric wrote: >> >> [1 ] >> On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:17:09 -0500 >> John Covici wrote: >> >>> OK, thanks, I think I will try that. >> >> The problem you're facing is that you masked

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 07:36:19 -0500, Kent Fredric wrote: > > [1 ] > On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:17:09 -0500 > John Covici wrote: > > > OK, thanks, I think I will try that. > > The problem you're facing is that you masked dev-lang/perl, but not any > virtual/perl-* or

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sun, 10 Dec 2017 02:17:09 -0500 John Covici wrote: > OK, thanks, I think I will try that. The problem you're facing is that you masked dev-lang/perl, but not any virtual/perl-* or perl-core/-* to compensate. These 3 components work in concert like a single component,

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 18:20:40 -0500, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 12/09/17 08:18, John Covici wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:28:25 -0500, > > Daniel Frey wrote: > >> > >> I had a lot of problems with the perl updates as well, and could > >> not get it to resolve. I wasted over an hour trying to

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Saturday, 9 December 2017 23:20:40 GMT Daniel Frey wrote: > I was trying to get the dependencies resolved so I could run > `emerge - auDNe world ... Really? Specifying -e overrules -uDN and makes them superfluous. Why would you want to do that? -- Regards, Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 12/09/17 08:18, John Covici wrote: On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:28:25 -0500, Daniel Frey wrote: I had a lot of problems with the perl updates as well, and could not get it to resolve. I wasted over an hour trying to resolve it (my poor Celeron would take 5-10 minutes trying to calculate

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 09/12/2017 17:28, Daniel Frey wrote: >> hmmm, nothing masked as far as perl modules,  I will look at >> verbose-conflicts and maybe write down all those modules and start >> unmerging and see if eventually portage can figure out something -- I >> don't really want to  do that,  however I will

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 10:28:25 -0500, Daniel Frey wrote: > > On 12/09/17 03:23, John Covici wrote: > > On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:51:03 -0500, > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> On 08/12/2017 21:12, John Covici wrote: > >>> On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500, > >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 12/09/17 03:23, John Covici wrote: On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:51:03 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 08/12/2017 21:12, John Covici wrote: On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote:

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Sat, 09 Dec 2017 03:51:03 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 08/12/2017 21:12, John Covici wrote: > > On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500, > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: > >>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, > >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: > >

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 08/12/2017 21:12, John Covici wrote: > On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500, > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: >>> On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, >>> Alan McKinnon wrote: On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote: > Hi. In preparing for the

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Fri, 08 Dec 2017 11:42:16 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, > > Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> > >> On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote: > >>> Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I > >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 07/12/2017 17:46, John Covici wrote: > On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote: >>> Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I >>> have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list >>>

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 12/07/2017 09:04 AM, John Covici wrote: > > I have it set to 120 by default. > Um... try "emerge -uDN1 perl" instead of @world? The perl upgrade was tough, IIRC because it needed a large backtrack value to succeed. But back when the perl upgrade was "new", a @world update was simple

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 09:37:56 -0500, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I > > have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list > > where perl 5.26 was going to have problems --

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 07/12/2017 07:44, John Covici wrote: > Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I > have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list > where perl 5.26 was going to have problems -- maybe until it is > stabilized -- but if I mask it off, I get the

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On Thu, 07 Dec 2017 07:42:45 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > On 12/07/2017 12:44 AM, John Covici wrote: > > Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I > > have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list > > where perl 5.26 was going to have

Re: [gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

On 12/07/2017 12:44 AM, John Covici wrote: > Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I > have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list > where perl 5.26 was going to have problems -- maybe until it is > stabilized -- but if I mask it off, I get

[gentoo-user] preparing for profile switch -- major problem

Hi. In preparing for the profile switch and the emerge -e world, I have run into a serious problem with perl. I think I saw on this list where perl 5.26 was going to have problems -- maybe until it is stabilized -- but if I mask it off, I get the following: !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy