On Sunday 02 March 2008, maxim wexler wrote: > Hi group, > > Notice in the following portage has nothing to say > about "blockers" following a warning from > revdep-rebuild. And the -u switch calls forth an > earlier version of python but without the -u switch is > content to re-emerge the newer package which I already > have on my system.
Um, yes it does have something to say about blockers. It explicitly states that python-2.3.6-r2 conflicts with something else (probably python-updater): > !!! Error: the <dev-lang/python-2.3.6-r2 package > conflicts with another package; > !!! the two packages cannot be installed on the > same system together. > !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine > blockers. You have a python-2.3 and python-2.4 on your system,probably left over from ages ago, as emerge will not by default unmerge an older SLOT when you install a newer SLOT of a package. You can probably get rid of python-2.3 safely, but first find out what is using it: equery depends =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 If nothing, then unmerge it, but first you might want to make a backup (just in case): quickpkg =dev-lang/python-2.3.5-r3 then run python-updater Now do emerge -avuND world to make sure everything is up to date followed by emerge -av --depclean and revdep-rebuild -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
