On Thursday 06 December 2007, Thufir wrote: > I haven't put much time into this, unfortunately, but am getting > blocked packages when emerging gnome. Just kinda throwing this out > there, I'll hopefully be able to do some research later today and add > to this post:
[snip] > arrakis ~ # emerge -DuNv gnome > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [snip] > [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-115-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/device- > mapper-1.02.22-r5) > [blocks B ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking app-text/ > aspell-0.60.5) > [blocks B ] <sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.19-r1 (is blocking sys-fs/ > udev-115-r1) All that this means is that sys-fs/device-mapper-1.02.22-r5 is not compatible with sys-fs/udev-115-r1. It's not an error or a bug. It simply means that thing A can't be used together with thing B, so YOU need to decide which versions of $THING you want to use.... [snip] > For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the > following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is > irrelevant): > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked ... by reading this link if necessary. You may have to emerge --sync to get versions where the latest stable are compatbile with each other. Or more likely, it's becuase udev and device-mapper are not removed and updated simultaneously. One of them is done first and it often happens that that package is incompatible with whatever version of the other one happens to still be on the machine (never mind that it's going to be removed itself in a few minutes, portage doesn't know about that). Nothing to see here, move along, this is gentoo after all. alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
