[gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
When doing an emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world I received the following error These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
There was a blog entry on planet gentoo recently about this: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/seemant/2006/06/02/utemptations_with_xterm It looks like you have to unmerge utempter and then emerge libutempter and rebuild xterm. On Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:56:21 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: When doing an emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world I received the following error These are the packages that I would

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Raymond Lewis Rebbeck
On Saturday, 3 June 2006 23:24, Allan Gottlieb wrote: So this utmpter/libutmpter appears to be a special case where the normal unmerge A merge B merge A is wrong. thanks again, allan I don't believe the procedure you mentioned has ever been normal. If packages block it

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 03 Jun 2006 23:46:48 +0930 Raymond Lewis Rebbeck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, 3 June 2006 23:24, Allan Gottlieb wrote: So this utmpter/libutmpter appears to be a special case where the normal unmerge A merge B merge A is wrong. thanks again, allan I don't

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread b.n.
I would think that the idea is that merging B (which is new or updated) changed the system so that A can now be remerged. For example perhaps the updated B has changed DEPEND and/or PROVIDE. This makes sense (despite 1.5 years of Gentoo I still don't get all subtle Portage features...my

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Teresa and Dale
b.n. wrote: I would think that the idea is that merging B (which is new or updated) changed the system so that A can now be remerged. For example perhaps the updated B has changed DEPEND and/or PROVIDE. This makes sense (despite 1.5 years of Gentoo I still don't get all subtle Portage

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: unmerge A merge B merge A When A is blocking B, the normal thing to do is to just unmerge A, and then execute again the command that reported the blockage. This is normally something like 'emerge -vaDu world'. If the package you unmerged is still needed, it

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sat, 03 Jun 2006 22:20:25 +0200 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: unmerge A merge B merge A When A is blocking B, the normal thing to do is to just unmerge A, and then execute again the command that reported the blockage. This is normally

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Benno Schulenberg
Allan Gottlieb wrote: These examples are admittedly rather comtrived. My google search result (posted a few msgs ago) gave the three step sequence you quoted above. When googling for advice, you may want to include site:gentoo.org in your terms, and maybe even handbook. Searching for

Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter

2006-06-03 Thread Allan Gottlieb
At Sun, 04 Jun 2006 00:07:44 +0200 Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Allan Gottlieb wrote: These examples are admittedly rather comtrived. My google search result (posted a few msgs ago) gave the three step sequence you quoted above. When googling for advice, you may want to