on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote:
 > > on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > >
 > 
 > >  > [nomerge      ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1]
 > >  > USE="-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*)"
 > >  > [ebuild     U ]  media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10]
 > >  > USE="X alsa dvd%* esd mad%* mpeg%* ogg%* vorbis%*
 > >  > xv -a52% -dvb% -ffmpeg% -flac% -mythtv% -oss* -theora%" 0 kB
 > >  > [ebuild  N    ]   media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6  USE="-debug"
 > >  > 0 kB [nomerge      ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6 
 > >  > USE="-debug" [ebuild     UD]  media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.14
 > >  > [0.10.19] USE="(-debug%) (-nls%*) (-test%)" 0 kB
 > >  >
 > >  > [blocks B     ] <media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6-r1 (is
 > >  > blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.19)
 > >  >
 > >  > This is similar to the above. portage wants to merge the latest
 > >  > gstreamer, but that conflicts with an earlier gst-plugins-ugly
 > >  > that you already have. gstreamer and it's plugins tend to come as
 > >  > matched pair but they can only be merged one by one, so something
 > >  > has to come off first before two new packages can go on. Easiest
 > >  > is to unmerge the plugin, as you have gst-plugins-meta which will
 > >  > put it back:
 > >  >
 > >  > emerge -avC gst-plugins-ugly ; emerge -av gstreamer
 > >  > gst-plugins-meta
 > >  >
 > >  >
 > >  > Run these and check the various outputs that emerge does the right
 > >  > thing each time, I can't guarantee 100% results. You'll have to
 > >  > compensate for my lack of a crystal ball by using your eye balls
 > >  > ;-)
 > >
 > > OK, the gtk-doc one worked the plugins did not since I don't have the
 > > package to unmerge at all i.e. I have no gst-plugins-ugly and I
 > > unmerged gst-plugins-meta, but I still am getting the blocks -b.
 > 
 > OK, I looked closer and saw some things I didn't see before. I think you 
 > have a mixed <arch> and ~<arch> system.
 > 
 > sound-juicer is pulling in gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2  (unstable)
 > which pulls in gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6               (stable)
 > which pulls in gstreamer-0.10.14                     (stable)
 > 
 > You need to get everything that goes with gstreamer either stable or 
 > unstable, as this mixture doesn't work. Either:
 > 
 > Convert the box to ~<arch> or
 > keyword gstreamer and ALL it's plugins unstable in package.keywords or
 > remove gst-plugins-meta from package.keywords
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > -- 
 > Alan McKinnon
 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
 > 
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 > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that
fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to
unstable -- is this a correct warning?  I have been just putting the
packages in the package.keywords when portage tells me to -- which is
usually quite a few for every update.

Thanks.

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         John Covici
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