On Monday 22 Sep 2014 14:38:19 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/09/2014 13:41, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > When I run: > > emerge -uDNl --with-bdeps=y @world > > > > I get this: > > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a > > dependency conflict: > > > > x11-base/xorg-server:0 > > > > (x11-base/xorg-server-1.16.0.901:0/1.16.0.901::gentoo, ebuild > > scheduled for merge) conflicts with > > > > x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.15.1= required by (x11-drivers/xf86- > > input-evdev-2.8.4:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > > > and xorg-server is not updated at all. I didn't even know that there's > > newer versions in portage. I'm on 1.15.1 and been running that for a > > > > long time now, but there's 1.15.2, 1.16.0 and 1.16.1 available. If I do: > > emerge -1 =xorg-server-1.16.1 > > > > then it works just fine and it gets updated. But with a @world update, > > nope. > > > > What's causing this? > > It gets stranger. I was getting the same results as you and did some > experiments running emerge -p and --backtrack. > > And suddenly, emerge -avuND world now works as expected. How's that for > non-deterministic? I can only assume those weird magic dynamic depends > are somehow involved and as such is worthy of a bug report. > > You can also resync as xorg-server-1.16.0.901 is now gone from the tree.
Interesting! I also got this on an x86 box, except that the problem was not with xorg but with chromium. I'll try with --backtrace to see what I get. Thanks for the suggestion Alan. -- Regards, Mick
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