On Tuesday 18 November 2003 06:59, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Portage is lately soooooooooooooooooooo strange. Check the following
> problems:
>
> I don't know why portage wants me to install
> [ebuild N ] sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.0_beta9-r2
>
> but I don't want it and it seems it doesn't matter what I want. It's not
> in the world file.
> [blocks B ] x11-themes/gnome-themes (from pkg
> x11-themes/gtk-engines-mist-0.10)
> [ebuild N ] x11-themes/gtk-engines-mist-0.10
>
> These packages are always conflicting. If I remove gnome-themes, gnome
> will not work properly, however I cannot install gtk-engines-mist, which
> because it is blocked. Portage seems to want to install it... I'm
> deadlocked!
>
> The same thing happens with
> [blocks B ] media-libs/libquicktime ("virtual/quicktime" from pkg
> media-libs/quicktime4linux-2.0.0-r1)
> [ebuild U ] media-libs/quicktime4linux-2.0.0-r1 [1.6.2]
>
> I had the following:
> [ebuild UD] dev-util/eclipse-platform-bin-2.0.2 [2.1]
> [ebuild U ] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-2.1.2 [2.1.1]
>
> So I unemerged dev-util/eclipse-platform-bin-2.0.2 [2.1] so that I could
> then upgrade eclipse-sdk so that I don't keep 2 eclipse installs in my
> PC! But after unemerging I get:
>
> [ebuild N ] dev-util/eclipse-platform-bin-2.1
> [ebuild N ] dev-util/eclipse-platform-bin-2.0.2
> [ebuild U ] dev-util/eclipse-sdk-2.1.2 [2.1.1]
>
> Strange! What's this?
>
> As I already mentioned, for some reason Portage also wants to install:
> [ebuild N ] dev-games/simgear-0.3.4
> [ebuild N ] games-simulation/flightgear-0.9.3
>
> for no good reason! And these packages do not show up in world file
> (/var/cache/edb/world).
>
> Any ideas?
This is quite interesting. I checked all the packages you mentioned and they
are all slotted - at least, they all have a SLOT=. Just to make sure this is
not some general problem with slotting on your machine, try going
through /var/db/pkg and unmerge what you don't want by directly referenceing
the package. e.g.
emerge
-C /var/db/pkg/dev-util/eclipse-platform-bin-2.1/eclipse-platform-bin-2.1.ebuild
Then do an emerge -uDp and see if any packages are gone. If they aren't, grep
your installed packages for references for references to the problematic
packages. e.g.
grep eclipse `find /var/db/pkg/* | grep ebuild`
In the case of quicktime, check /var/cache/edb/virtuals to see if they're are
any references in there to a version you don't have installed and edit as
necessary. If there aren't, grep as above.
If you're still stuck, try providing as much detail as you can find for one of
the cases above. The others will probably turn out to have the same fix.
Jason
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