Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sat, 22 Feb 2014 21:15:05 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: > (media-libs/libpng-1.6.8::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) > pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in > this slot) Whenever you see this, "(no parents that ...)", you'll want to be aware that there is back

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-03-21 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 11:54:43 + Alan Mackenzie wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 01:32:36AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > > Am Samstag, 22.02.2014 um 21:15 > > > > What do I have to do to get this thing emerged? > > > > Thanks! > > > > Sometimes it is helpful to increase the backtrack

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:59:14 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Personally, I think portage has gone too far and the complex solutions > are causing problems that are worse than what they attempt to solve. > Amzing solutions (like sub-slots) aren't really much use in the real > world if the package mai

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Kerem Gülver
I remember having past a similar problem by this steps: unmerge it. try to update and write the offered package choices on corresponding files, i.e: *.mask/use. update it with "--newuse" option. Doesn't work, try first installing the aforementioned package and then update. It's actually not a bug,

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Tanstaafl
On 2014-02-23 12:42 PM, Mick wrote: On Sunday 23 Feb 2014 17:25:18 Tanstaafl wrote: You do realize that blind bottom posting is far WORSE than blind top-posting (done here intentionally to make a point), don't you? Please trim your posts. Sorry for this, I wasn't being lazy. I usually do t

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Mick
On Sunday 23 Feb 2014 17:25:18 Tanstaafl wrote: > Mick, > > You do realize that blind bottom posting is far WORSE than blind > top-posting (done here intentionally to make a point), don't you? > > Please trim your posts. Sorry for this, I wasn't being lazy. I usually do trim my posts, except f

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Tanstaafl
Mick, You do realize that blind bottom posting is far WORSE than blind top-posting (done here intentionally to make a point), don't you? Please trim your posts. On 2014-02-22 6:32 PM, Mick wrote: On Saturday 22 Feb 2014 22:06:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: On 22/02/2014 23:15, Alan Mackenzie wrot

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/02/2014 18:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Alan. > > On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 05:22:15PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 23/02/2014 14:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: - are you sure that's an emerge failure and not just a convoluted info > message? Perhaps post the entire emerge outpu

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Alan. On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 05:22:15PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 23/02/2014 14:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> - are you sure that's an emerge failure and not just a convoluted info > >> > message? Perhaps post the entire emerge output. > > I tried it again without the -p, and got t

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/02/2014 14:13, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> - are you sure that's an emerge failure and not just a convoluted info >> > message? Perhaps post the entire emerge output. > I tried it again without the -p, and got the same output. > > I think this is a portage bug. At the very least, it's poor > d

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Mick. On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:32:42PM +, Mick wrote: > On Saturday 22 Feb 2014 22:06:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 22/02/2014 23:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > Hi, Gentoo. > > > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long interval. > > > I got the error message: >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 12:06:15AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/02/2014 23:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long interval. > > I got the error message: > >!!! Multiple package instances within a single pa

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
On Sun, Feb 23, 2014 at 01:32:36AM +0100, waben...@gmail.com wrote: > Am Samstag, 22.02.2014 um 21:15 > > What do I have to do to get this thing emerged? > > Thanks! > Sometimes it is helpful to increase the backtrack value. Some weeks ago > I had a similar problem and could I solve it with >

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-22 Thread wabenbau
Am Samstag, 22.02.2014 um 21:15 schrieb Alan Mackenzie : > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long > interval. I got the error message: > >!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have > been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resu

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-22 Thread Mick
On Saturday 22 Feb 2014 22:06:15 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 22/02/2014 23:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, Gentoo. > > > > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long interval. > > > > I got the error message: > >!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot h

Re: [gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/02/2014 23:15, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Gentoo. > > I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long interval. > I got the error message: > >!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been > pulled >!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in

[gentoo-user] "Multiple package instances ....". Help me understand this emerge error, please.

2014-02-22 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Gentoo. I've just tried an emerge -puND world, after a shockingly long interval. I got the error message: !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: , etc. To simplify the problem, I tried t