Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/
Alan McKinnon writes: For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to: cd /etc/portage echo =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 package.use emerge -avuND world Um, make this package.mask. Oh, and the -N switch is good style, but not really necessary, is it? Wonko -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/
On Wednesday 07 May 2008, Alex Schuster wrote: Alan McKinnon writes: For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to: cd /etc/portage echo =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 package.use emerge -avuND world Um, make this package.mask. Oops, my bad. Thanks for picking that up Oh, and the -N switch is good style, but not really necessary, is it? Correct again in this specific case as it turns out - no USE flags got changed. I routinely just use -uND myself as I invariably want emerge to consider deep USE flag changes. I find that emerge can still do the extra processing in less time than it takes me to figure out if I need/want -N or not :-) -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/
/etc/init.d/vmware start * VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured * for the running kernel. * Please ensure that the modules have been compiled for this kernel: * emerge --oneshot vmware-modules * Also ensure VMware Server has been configured: * /opt/vmware/server/bin/vmware-config.pl * VMware is not properly configured! See above. [ !! ] * ERROR: vmware failed to start --- These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.17-r1 0 kB [blocks B ] =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.5.80187) Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!!at the same time on the same system. 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 What is that block? This should be installed? What is done with portage, that blocks exists when I try to install software that is part of other package (and higher package depend on it)? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] WTF? VMWare server modules blocks :/
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Mateusz A. Mierzwiński wrote: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.17-r1 0 kB [blocks B ] =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 (is blocking app-emulation/vmware-server-1.0.5.80187) Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 0 kB !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed !!! at the same time on the same system. 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 What is that block? This should be installed? What is done with portage, that blocks exists when I try to install software that is part of other package (and higher package depend on it)? Maybe you don't understand what blockers are and how they work - go read the referenced page in the Gentoo manual. What is happening is quite simple: On a code level, or file-collision level, you cannot have a version of vmware-modules greater than or equal to 1.0.0.16 on a machine that already has vmware-server-1.0.5.80187 installed. But this is precisely what you are trying to do, it's a side effect of running ~arch in this case. The vmware-server ebuild has this inside: RDEPEND= ~app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 !app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 !=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 For whatever reason (and it will be a good technical one) the only version of vmware-modules you can use is 1.0.0.15*. So, you need to: cd /etc/portage echo =app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.16 package.use emerge -avuND world -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
