At Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:01 -0400 ABCD <[email protected]> wrote: > Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced >> a long list of packages to merge. Fine. >> >> At the end it says >> >> Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: >> 223,796 kB >> Conflict: 3 blocks >> Portage tree and overlays: >> [0] /usr/portage >> [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined >> >> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] >> >> Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume >> this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are >> nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like >> to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these. >> >> thanks, >> allan >> > > It should be ok, and as there are "3 blocks", you will probably find > three instances of "[blocks b ]" (note the lowercase "b"), which are > automatically resolved (usually) by an "[unmerge ]" line further > down (or up, if you are using --tree). This corresponds to the new > behavior, which automatically fixes problems like the old > e2fsprogs/com_err/ss/e2fsprogs-libs blocker, without breaking anything > (well, the system may be in an inconsistent state if you loose power at > *exactly* the wrong time, but that can happen anyway during a merge, > even without this new behavior). > > PS: I hope I didn't ramble on too much... this was going to be much > longer, and less coherent.
Thank you and justin. I did look for the B' (but was looking for capital B) and didn't find it. After justin's msg, I let the emerge go and it has finished successfully. Thanks again, allan
