On 2023-01-15, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> Today's update of my LAN server failed to resolve a block. It said it
> couldn't
> emerge net-proxy/squid-5.7 because of:
>
> [blocks B ] net-proxy/squid-5.7)
> [,,,]
> (net-proxy/squid-5.7:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
> net-proxy/squid required by @apps
>
> That's all I got. No sign of what required the < had come from.
It came from the squid ebuild itself.
>From a quick look (I might have overlooked something), it sounds like it
has to be manually uninstalled beforehand (so, precisely what you did
:-) ).
https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=834503
> The apps set does not specify a version, and no other package depends on
> squid, so I removed it with emerge -C, then restarted the update, which ran
> to
> completion.
>
> It seems to me that portage should have been able to do the same, and upgrade
> squid smoothly.
--
Nuno Silva
