On Monday 24 November 2003 21:34, LJN wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 13:20, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > On Monday 24 November 2003 19:50, LJN wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:19, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote:
> > > > how would one deal with this situation? what options are there and
> > > > why is which better in what cases?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> > > >
> > > > Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.61 [1.56]
> > > > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg
> > > > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12)
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 [1.18.1-r2]
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 [3.2.9-r7]
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 [1.7.2]
> > > > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r3
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 [1.16.7-r2]
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r2 [5.3-r1]
> > > > [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r7 [2.05b-r5]
> > > > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6k [0.9.6j]
> > > > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 [2.2.3-r1]
> > > > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r15 [2.0.48-r5]
> > > > *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
> > > > recalculate dependencies, and complete the merge.
> > > >
> > > > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r10]
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > You haven't updated in a while, have you? perl assimilated the
> > functionality of ExtUtils-MakeMaker into itself. Thus, the two packages
> > provide the same files. If you just unmerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker nothing
> > will break after perl is updated too and the blocker will be gone.
>
> yeah it's been a while, forgot to keep it updated, then couldn't get to
> the machine in a few months and then postponed it for a bit more :/ not
> the best practice, anyway thanks.
Not that there's anything wrong with not updating. It shouldn't be a necessary
thing if you have all the functionality you need - except when security is a
concern. Eventually, portage will get to a state where the above sort of
thing will be explained in more detail when the problem arises. But for the
time being...
Jason
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