On Fri, 01 Jun 2012 11:52:24 Thomas Kahle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> now that I have sage-on-gentoo installed I can't do world updates with
> the -D option anymore. Looks like a portage quirk to me.
>
> There seem to be at least two problems:
>
> I have sci-mathematics/singular in my world file and the -D option
> forces portage to think that I insist on the latest version. Therefore
> it collides with sage-on-gentoo insisting on 3.1.3:
>
> sci-mathematics/singular:0
>
> (sci-mathematics/singular-3.1.3.3::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
> ~sci-mathematics/singular-3.1.3.3 required by
> (sci-mathematics/sage-5.0-r1::sage-on-gentoo, installed)
>
> (sci-mathematics/singular-3.1.4-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this
> slot)
>
>
> There also is an eselect issue. I don't know why, but eselect-blas and
> eselect-lapack are pulled in, although blocked by the new gsl:
>
> [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-blas ("app-admin/eselect-blas" is
> blocking sci-libs/gsl-1.15-r2, sci-libs/cblas-reference-20110218) [blocks B
> ] app-admin/eselect-lapack ("app-admin/eselect-lapack" is blocking
> sci-libs/gsl-1.15-r2, sci-libs/cblas-reference-20110218)
>
> However, without the -D option I just get a warning:
>
> WARNING: One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict:
>
> sci-mathematics/singular:0
>
> (sci-mathematics/singular-3.1.4-r1::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> conflicts with ~sci-mathematics/singular-3.1.3.3 required by
> (sci-mathematics/sage-5.0-r1::sage-on-gentoo, installed)
>
>
> Any ideas? Shall I carry this to the portage mailing list?
> Cheers,
We need to know what pulls these eselect modules. What is the portage
output when you add the "t" option. It should show what wants what.
Copying you directly in case it doesn't make it to the list.
Francois
