On 17/04/2016 11:36, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> [16-04-17 11:08]: >> On 17/04/2016 05:45, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> >>> ...and the novice was buffled and even the master shifted a little bit >>> after recognizing this words of the eternal being named emerge. >>> I know, that there is a difference in knowing the path and walking the >>> path, but it seems that I am not supposed to understand this: >>> >>> >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: >>> >>> Calculating dependencies... done! >>> >>> Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB >>> >>> WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a dependency >>> conflict: >>> >>> dev-util/boost-build:0 >>> >>> (dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >>> conflicts with >>> =dev-util/boost-build-1.58* required by >>> (dev-libs/boost-1.58.0-r1:0/1.58.0::gentoo, installed) >>> ^ ^^^^^ >>> >>> >>> !!! The following update has been skipped due to unsatisfied dependencies: >>> >>> dev-libs/boost:0 >>> >>> !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "=dev-util/boost-build-1.60*" have been >>> masked. >>> !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your >>> request: >>> - dev-util/boost-build-1.60.0::gentoo (masked by: ) >>> >>> >>> For me it looks like boost not beeing updated/reinstalled because of >>> another version of boost, which depends on boost. >>> >>> HELP, I need somebody, HELP, not just anybody hee-eee-eelp uuuuuhhhh! >>> >>> Thanks for any HELP in advance! May the source be with you... >>> Best regards, >>> Meino >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> Hah! That's one of those blockers that makes little or no sense. >> >> >> boost has this dep: >> >> DEPEND="${RDEPEND} >> =dev-util/boost-build-${MAJOR_V}*" >> >> and boost-build does not depend on boost. >> >> So, logically you'd expect boost to want to upgrade to 1.60, notice >> boost-build's dep and upgrade boost-build as well to match. But it >> doesn't, because boost-build-1.60 is masked for <null> reason. >> >> It really looks and smells like a bug in emerge[1] when updating world >> where it considers boost-build first, fixes the version to use to match >> current boost, and then can't find a way to upgrade boost. >> >> Solution would seem to be to emerge -C either of them and let portage >> get on with it. Or upgrade just upgrade boost-build by itself then do world >> >> >> [1] I wouldn't go so far as to call it a "bug" as such, because nothing >> in the spec requires a package manager to guarantee that it will always >> find the best way to upgrade everything. It only needs to keep the >> system consistent with the ebuilds it has. >> >> -- >> Alan McKinnon >> alan.mckin...@gmail.com >> >> > > Hi Alan, > > thanks for your reply! :) > > ...and I thought it was me being too limited to see the real truth > behind that what it is The Matrix. > > But it was only a deja-vu....oh wait! It was NO deja-vu ... no > glitch in The Matrix...we had similiar emerge-ncies in the past. ;) > > I will see how far I can go...I was warned to use 060 of boost... > > Best regards, > Meino > > >
It reminds me of many years back with two packages that depend on each other and portage couldn't deal with updating both at the same time. emerge -C got a lot of use back then :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com