On Thursday 04 September 2003 04:58 am, gabriel wrote:

I have the same problem.  I am fairly new to Gentoo, so I hpe this is useful:

an "etcat -d avifile" 
on my system showed that some programs dependant upon avifile require 
>=media-video/avifile-0.7.37* and others (mjpegtools) 
<media-video/avifile-0.7.38
so there is always an unhappy package until the pkgs  with "<" get updated.

> the other day i ran this:
>
>   # emerge --pretend --update --deep world
>
> and got (among other things) this:
>
>   [ebuild     UD] media-video/avifile-0.7.37.20030522-r2 [0.7.38.20030710]
>
> "no problem" i thought.  "maybe since i'm using ~x86 this just needs to be
> downgraded 'cause it wasn't ready.  so i ran this:
>
>   # emerge --update --deep world
>
> and after compilation, i ran this again:
>
>   # emerge --pretend --update --deep world
>
> and got this:
>
>   [ebuild     U ] media-video/avifile-0.7.38.20030710 [0.7.37.20030522-r2]
>
> "how can this be?" i thought.  so i tried qpkg:
>
> (~) # qpkg -I -q avifile
> media-video/avifile-0.7.37.20030522-r2 *
> DEPENDED ON BY:
>         media-video/transcode-0.6.9
>
> so here's my question:  if there's only one package depending on avifile,
> why can't it make up it's mind?  i took a look at the ebuild, and it only
> seems to call avifile once, so i'm at a loss here.

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