Rumen Yotov schreef: > Hi, Recently (last two days) when running:"emerge -DNu world -ptv" > receive the following: ... #emerge -DNu world -ptv > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] > mail-filter/maildrop-2.0.1 +berkdb -debug +fam* -gdbm -ldap -mysql > -postgres 0 kB [ebuild R ] net-mail/courier-imap-4.0.1 +berkdb > -debug +fam* -gdbm +ipv6 +nls (-selinux) 0 kB > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB ... In first look nothing strange, only > i don't have/use "fam" (use 'gamin' instead). More info,no fam in > /etc/make.conf: "grep fam /etc/make.conf" > nothing. So must be some > issue with "virtuals". In "maildrop-2.0.1.ebuild" there is the > following: ... Now don't need to post this as a question, thing are > clear. Gamin also provides "virtual/fam" although it's gamin not fam. > Just a confusion with "fam" USE-flag. Post this for info only. > Thanks.
This happened to me yesterday, except with a twist. For a change, I did an emerge -uaDNtv world instead of without a --newuse like normal, and I got a block, because of emelfm2: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] app-misc/emelfm2-0.1.2 +fam* -gamin +nls -utf8only 0 kB [1] Total size of downloads: 0 kB Portage overlays: [1] /usr/local/portage Now, since I use gamin, fam wanted to install, and was (naturally) blocked by gamin. Fortunately, emelfm2 has a 'gamin' USE flag, so I just disabled fam and enabled gamin to clear the block. Comparing this to your situation, it looks like 'fam' is a new USE flag, enabled by default (since fam is installed by default). I don't really have much of a problem with that-- except I misss the corresponding 'gamin' USE flag for the programs you are upgrading. However, I also assume that these programs may not be able to use gamin, or have not been updated to use a virtual/fam rather than fam itself. Either way, I would be clued that these programs were out of date in some respect, and would start checking their current status on the web page: are they currently maintained? are there plans to enable gamin support? If not, then I would check Bugzilla to see if a bug had been filed to allow for virtual/fam instead of fam directly. If not, I would copy the ebuilds to my overlay and modify them to take a virtual/fam, and install those. If they worked that way, I would submit the modified ebuilds to b.g.o. My 2 eurocents (which we don't even have anymore), Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
