Yesterday I experienced the same problem and ended up doing the same thing
of keywording "=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.12.3".
Cheers!
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 13:36:26 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 21/11/2017 15:03, Mick wrote:
> > > I see that <media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.11.90:1.0 is blocking
> > > media-libs/gst- plugins-base-1.12.3, so I removed various gst-plugins
> and
> > > net-libs/farstream, emerged -1 media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.12.3, but
> > > portage continues to complain, with backtrack=99 or not.
> > >
> > > What is the way to overcome this?
> > >
> > > =================================
> > > # emerge @preserved-rebuild -v -a
> > >
> > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > >
> > > Calculating dependencies... done!
> > > [ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.10.5:1.0::gentoo USE="X
> > > bzip2 egl introspection nls opengl orc vnc wayland -gles2 -gtk {-test}
> > > -vcd" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
> > > [ebuild N ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-libnice-0.1.13-r100:1.0::
> gentoo
> > > ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
> > > [ebuild N ] media-libs/gst-plugins-good-1.10.5:1.0::gentoo
> USE="nls
> > > orc" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
> > > [ebuild N ] net-libs/farstream-0.2.8-r1:0.2/5::gentoo
> > > USE="introspection {-test} -upnp" 0 KiB
> > > [ebuild R ] net-im/pidgin-2.12.0:0/2::gentoo USE="dbus
> gstreamer gtk
> > > ncurses nls spell xscreensaver (-aqua) -debug -doc -eds -gadu -gnutls -
> > > groupwise -idn -meanwhile -networkmanager -perl -pie -prediction
> -python
> > > -sasl -silc -tcl -tk -zephyr -zeroconf" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0
> KiB
> > > [blocks B ] <media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.11.90:1.0
> > > ("<media-libs/gst- plugins-bad-1.11.90:1.0" is blocking
> > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.12.3)
> > >
> > > Total: 5 packages (4 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
> > > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
> > >
> > > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> > > * installed at the same time on the same system.
> > >
> > > (media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.12.3:1.0/1.0::gentoo, installed)
> pulled
> > > in by>
> > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:1.0 required by (net-im/
> > >
> > > pidgin-2.12.0:0/2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > >
> > > >=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.4:1.0 required by (net-libs/
> > >
> > > farstream-0.2.8-r1:0.2/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > >
> > > >=media-libs/gst-plugins-
> > >
> > > base-1.10.5:1.0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)
> ?,abi_mips_n32
> > > (-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,
> abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s
> > > 390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]
> > > (>=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.10.5:1.0[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by
> > > (media- libs/gst-plugins-good-1.10.5:1.0/1.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled
> > > for merge)>
> > > media-libs/gst-plugins-base:
> > > 1.0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_
> n32(-)?,abi_mip
> > > s_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,
> abi_s390_32(-)?,a
> > > bi_s390_64(-)?] (media-libs/gst-plugins-base:1.0[abi_x86_64(-)])
> required
> > > by (media-plugins/ gst-plugins-libnice-0.1.13-r100:1.0/1.0::gentoo,
> > > ebuild scheduled for merge)>
> > > >=media-libs/gst-plugins-
> > >
> > > base-1.10.5:1.0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)
> ?,abi_mips_n32
> > > (-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,
> abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s
> > > 390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,introspection?]
> > > (>=media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.10.5:1.0[abi_x86_64(-),
> introspection])
> > > required by (media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.10.5:1.0/1.0::gentoo, ebuild
> > > scheduled for merge)
> > >
> > > (media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.10.5:1.0/1.0::gentoo, ebuild
> scheduled for
> > >
> > > merge) pulled in by
> > >
> > > >=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.4:1.0 required by (net-libs/
> > >
> > > farstream-0.2.8-r1:0.2/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
> > > =================================
> >
> > There's no obvious reason why portage should select
> > media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.10.5, and gst-plugins has updated cleanly
> > for me for months now. By I'm on ~arch and your packages are arch. Can
> > we re-check the obvious?
> >
> > emerge --sync up to date?
>
> Yes. Twice over.
>
>
> > emerge world done?
>
> Yes, but I had to exclude media-libs/gst-plugins-bad to avoid the hard
> blocker
> and be able to emerge @world.
>
>
> > Often times I find a partial update fails whereas all
> > of world succeeds, it checks all the deps and misses none
> > Any mixture of ~arch packages related to pidgin, farstream, gst-plugins?
> > Any of those packages keyworded/masked/unmasked on your system?
>
> All on stable versions. farstream is pulled in by pidgin.
>
>
> > and finally, to see what might want gst-plugins-bad:
> > equery depends gst-plugins-bad
>
> # equery depends gst-plugins-bad
> * These packages depend on gst-plugins-bad:
> dev-qt/qtmultimedia-5.7.1 (gstreamer ? media-libs/gst-plugins-bad:1.0)
>
>
> There are some legacy settings in /etc/portage, but I wouldn't think they
> cause this block:
>
> # grep gst -r /etc/portage/
> /etc/portage/package.keywords/ffmpeg.keywords:#=media-plugins/gst-plugins-
> ffmpeg-0.10.13_p201211-r5 ~amd64
> /etc/portage/package.use/enlightenment:media-plugins/evas_generic_loaders
> gstreamer postscript
> /etc/portage/package.use/im:net-im/pidgin gtk gstreamer
> /etc/portage/package.use/bluetooth:net-wireless/bluez gstreamer pcmcia
> /etc/portage/package.use/media:>=media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.36-r2:0.10
> abi_x86_32
> /etc/portage/package.use/media:>=media-libs/gst-
> plugins-base-0.10.36-r2:0.10
> abi_x86_32
> /etc/portage/package.use/media:>=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.4:1.0 egl
>
>
> This is the only box I came across this problem. For now I keyworded
> media-
> libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.12.3 and it is now emerging without any more blocks,
> but it is not obvious to me why this happened.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Mick
