Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-28 Thread lee
James wirel...@tampabay.rr.com writes: If we have some quick way to install, then systems could be setup, customized, used for testing and torn down again, all in a few hours? I'd focus on simple, minimized installs and it would give the user base a way to duplicate systems for problem

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/03/2015 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, and to be honest, portage is not helping at all.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two options in running it: don't use

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 March 2015 11:59:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: Maybe I'll have a deeper look into portage's code with a view to improving this area. No promises thought :-) So we'll expect to see you again, wringing your hands and shivering, in about six months then... :) -- Rgds Peter.

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread James
Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon at gmail.com writes: Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan. I do have some of the required skills, and I have free time right now. Ah; stepping up are we? I'll be hoping you are taking requests on the 'portage thingy' ? How'z about extending emerge with a few

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org writes: On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: Hi, when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org writes: On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice. From

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/03/2015 20:08, lee wrote: Jonathan Callen jcal...@gentoo.org writes: On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com writes: On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Sadly, you don't know. There is no clue in any of the output you posted that this is required, so your only solution is to ask the collective memory of the community. Lucky for you and others, Jonathan was aware of the problem and was kind enough to post the solution.

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: Hi, when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the following message: * Error: The above package list contains packages which

[gentoo-user] Re: Blockage problem

2006-10-26 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:11, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: I tried to install Crossover-Office-Pro-Bin and i got the following blockage message: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] =x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking x11-libs/libXau-1.0.2, x11-libs/libXext-1.0.2,