On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote:
> Why won't portage let me install kompare?
>
> # emerge --pretend kompare
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug
> -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" [blocks B ]
> =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7) [blocks B
> ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7)
>
> How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from?
> There are no other versions of kompare installed.
> kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of
> kde<anything> in /etc/portage/*.
The solution is a little more complex than in Michael's reply and this
may take a while :-)
. Normally with blockers one looks in the ebuild to see what you may and
may not do, this is often enough info. The contents of /etc/portage/*
is seldom useful here as blockers almost always mean you have specified
two things that cannot co-exist.
In your case, you have run into monolithic and -meta kde ebuilds. Guess
what - you already have the kompare binaries, despite the fact that
kde-base/kompare is not installed. That's because they are actually
part of kdesdk. There are two ways I would have gone about finding this
out:
a. 'equery depends kompare' would have said that kdesdk-meta depends on
it, if it were installed (which it isn't on your machine).
b. Looking into the ebuild for kdesdk-meta shows:
RDEPEND="
...
$(deprange $PV $MAXKDEVER kde-base/kompare)
...
"
So the -meta package installs kompare, therefore the monolithic package
will too.
Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual packages
from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding monolithic
package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do this.
How did I immediately know that this is the cause? School of hard
knocks :-) From experience I have a good idea of the name of the 15 or
so KDE monolithic packages, and the general rule I follow is that
blockers related to kde are usually conflicts between -meta and
monolithic ebuilds.
Roll on KDE4 when this monolithic nonsense will go away and there will
only be -meta ebuilds.
alan
>
> # emerge --search kompare
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : kompare ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * kde-base/kompare
> Latest version available: 3.5.7
> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
> Size of files: 5,078 kB
> Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
> Description: KDE: A program to view the differences
> between files and optionally generate a diff License: GPL-2
>
> # emerge --search '%^kdesdk$'
> Searching...
> [ Results for search key : ^kdesdk$ ]
> [ Applications found : 1 ]
>
> * kde-base/kdesdk
> Latest version available: 3.5.7
> Latest version installed: 3.5.7
> Size of files: 5,088 kB
> Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
> Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind,
> Kompare, Umbrello,... License: GPL-2
>
>
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