On 12/11/2008, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 different blocking problems. > > The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able > solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one > small part of the blocking. > > I've included below some long output from: > > emerge -vuDNpt world (to show the interdependence's) > > (sorry but this is some 600 lines long) > > Possibly some other flags to emerge would be more helpful. If so > please tell me and I'll post that as well. > > This output seems a little overwhelming but I hope someone who is used > to deciphering such output will take time to look at it and maybe see > how I can get started straightening it out. > > First a short look at the blocking lines: > > ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== > > grep blocking outfile > > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc" is > blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga" is > blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt > ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix > ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) > [blocks b ] sys-libs/ss ("sys-libs/ss" is blocking > sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) > [blocks b ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs ("sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs" is > blocking sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11, sys-libs/ss-1.40.11) > [blocks b ] sys-libs/com_err ("sys-libs/com_err" is blocking > sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) > [blocks b ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 ("<sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41" is > blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) > [blocks b ] <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5 ("<x11-base/xorg-server-1.5" is > blocking x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10.5) > [blocks b ] <dev-python/pygtk-2.13 ("<dev-python/pygtk-2.13" is > blocking dev-python/pygobject-2.15.4) > [blocks B ] <dev-python/pygtk-2.13 ("<dev-python/pygtk-2.13" is > blocking dev-python/pygobject-2.15.4) > [blocks B ] >=sys-fs/udev-126 (">=sys-fs/udev-126" is blocking > sys-fs/cryptsetup-1.0.6) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* ("=kde-base/kdebase-3.5*" is blocking > kde-base/kdeprint-3.5.10) > [blocks B ] kde-base/kdeprint:3.5 ("kde-base/kdeprint:3.5" is blocking > kde-base/kdebase-3.5.9-r4) > [blocks B ] <=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4 ("<=x11-libs/qt-4.4.0_alpha:4" > is blocking x11-libs/qt-qt3support-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-script-4.4.2, > x11-libs/qt-dbus-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-assistant-4.4.2, > x11-libs/qt-xmlpatterns-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-sql-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-gui-4.4.2, > x11-libs/qt-svg-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-test-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-core-4.4.2, > x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.4.2, x11-libs/qt-opengl-4.4.2) > [blocks B ] kde-base/kdebase ("kde-base/kdebase" is blocking > kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.10-r2)
The blocks regarding sys-fs/e2fsprogs, sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs, sys-libs/ss and sys-libs/com_err were discussed recently on this list. Basically you need to: emerge -f e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs emerge -C com_err ss e2fsprogs emerge -1 e2fsprogs I'm not sure about the others, but fixing these should get you closer to an up-to-date system. :) Dan