Rumen Yotov wrote: >On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 19:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > > >>Hi, >> >>I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and >>want to update world. >> >>When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a >>package that I had installed was blocking another package. I want to >>update but omit the blocked package from the update, which incidentally >>is not installed on my system. >> >>Regards, >> >>Colleen >> >> >Hi, >Think it mostly depends on which is the package in question. >Seen three types of package blocking: >1.a new version blocking the old version of the same package - remove it >then add again; >2.A new package wants to install but there is another package serving >the same role, e.g mail-server: qmail, postfix, exim all provide - >virtual/mta (IIRC), so only one could get installed; >3.Think it's your case. Some other package (which is installed) has a >*new* dependency on another one (not installed), which provides the same >'virtual/...' as third one (installed). >This could happen when using -D/--deep flag - try without it to check >and use -t/-tree option to see the deps. But it depends on the package >in question & friends. >HTH.Rumen > > I went to the painstaking effort of updating each package on my system that required updating individually and am left with this, which is the result of 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world':
Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 (is blocking net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g) [ebuild N ] net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g [ebuild U ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r1 [4.63-r2] >From this, I assume that the installed package, Pine, is blocking the package nw-mail-utils-2004g, which is *not* installed. So, how do I prevent uw-mailutils-2004g from being installed so I can update Pine? Regards, Colleen -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
