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. -- "Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest." --John Stuart Mill: On Liberty (1859) http://etext.library.adelaide.edu.au/m/m645o/ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
