On Tue, 6 Oct 2009 19:51:21 -0700
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> I may put this off until Xmas break (I cannot afford to wedge this
> system right now), but I'm worried by the results of an emerge
> --pretend:
>
> It looks like 20 packages or so want eselect-1.2.3, but it's blocked
> by eselect-news which is required by world.
>
> Is there a sane way through this update? Details below.
>
> ++ kevin
>
>
> [blocks B ] app-admin/eselect-news ("app-admin/eselect-news" is
> blocking app-admin/eselect-1.2.3)
>
> Total: 61 packages (56 upgrades, 5 new), Size of downloads: 41,445 kB
> Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
>
> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
> ('ebuild', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-1.2.3', 'merge') pulled in by
> >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.2 required by ('installed', '/',
> 'app-admin/eselect-python-20090824', 'nomerge')
> >=app-admin/eselect-1.0.10 required by ('installed', '/',
> 'app-admin/eselect-ecj-0.3', 'nomerge')
> app-admin/eselect required by ('installed', '/',
> 'app-office/openoffice-3.1.1', 'nomerge')
> (and 18 more)
>
> ('installed', '/', 'app-admin/eselect-news-20080320', 'nomerge')
> pulled in by
> app-admin/eselect-news required by world
>
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
> irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
Sounds like eselect-news is in your world file, which can be verified by
gunning 'grep eselect-news /var/lib/portage/world'. Why not unmerge
eselect-news, do the upgrade, then emerge it afterwards?
HTH,
David
P.S. If the unmerge doesn't break the log jam, you can emerge
eselect-news and get back to "normal".
