On Wednesday 13 August 2003 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked > package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm > seeing in my xterm, along with the little bit of the man page on emerge > that seems to apply, but I don't know how to go forward properly. I hope > someone can give me the emerge 101 lesson on blocked package handling.
The exactly same problem was already discussed and answered in the mailing list and the GWN. Your are obviously lazy, but I answer nonetheless ;o) unmerge the blockers. The packets that are blocking are from now on provided by perl. > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r11] Glück Auf Volker -- Conclusions In a straight-up fight, the Empire squashes the Federation like a bug. Even with its numerical advantage removed, the Empire would still squash the Federation like a bug. Accept it. -Michael Wong -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
