[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage
ยท Grant Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why won't portage let me install kompare? Because you already have it. # emerge --pretend kompare These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE=arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama [blocks B ] =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7) How does one figure out where these blocks are coming from? By having a look in the ebuilds. There are no other versions of kompare installed. kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of kdeanything in /etc/portage/*. I suppose kompare is part of kdesdk. kdesdk is a huge package containing lots of stuff. So I suppose you cannot have both kdesdk and a broken out package (kompare) installed at the same time. * kde-base/kdesdk Latest version available: 3.5.7 Latest version installed: 3.5.7 Size of files: 5,088 kB Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, Umbrello,... License: GPL-2 Yep. There it says: kdesdk also offers Kompare. Hm, why would you want to install Kompare, if you already have it installed? Michael Schmarck -- Why would anyone want to be called Later? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:28:24PM +, Grant Edwards wrote: Why won't portage let me install kompare? * kde-base/kdesdk Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, Umbrello,... By what I understand, kdesdk already includes kompare, that is why it is blocking it. If you don't have kompare already, there may be some bug in an eclass or ebuild relating to one of these packages. I'm not a kde user, but a quick look at the ebuild for kompare showed that the src is the same as kdesdk. As for where the blocks come from, I think it's directly from the dependencies specified in the ebuilds. Well, hope that helps. Cheers, Guilherme -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage
On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: Why won't portage let me install kompare? # emerge --pretend kompare These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE=arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama [blocks B ] =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7) How does one figure out where these blocks are coming from? There are no other versions of kompare installed. kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of kdeanything in /etc/portage/*. The solution is a little more complex than in Michael's reply and this may take a while :-) [...] Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual packages from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding monolithic package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do this. Sure, it makes sense now. :) Thanks for the explanation. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I was making donuts at and now I'm on a bus! visi.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage
On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual packages from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding monolithic package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do this. Sure, it makes sense now. :) Thanks for the explanation. I just re-read my own post and I'm left with one impression: There gotta be an easier way to do this split-ebuild thing where the user can see at a glance if a package is monolithic or not... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
