On Tuesday 01 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > I'm updating my newer machine (the hot-backup). Last time was in > mid-February. After doing an emerge --sync and updating portage, I'm > getting a mysterious message at the end of... > > emerge --pretend --deep --update --world > x > > ...namely... > > [blocks B] <=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 (is blocking > x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1) > > I've tried the usual... > grep openmotif /etc/portage/* > revdep-rebuild --ask > > Nothing shows up from either one. What do I do next?
What's confusing about that? The reason is in the ebuild for x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1 where it's configured to not co-exist with any earlier version. Look carefully at the "<=" and version numbers... To fix: unmerge the existing openmotif, merge the new one -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
