[clue-tech] Gentoo - still seeing blocks after unmerge (mostly solved)

[Dave Price]

Turns out there were a bunch of 'meta' packages as well.  Unmerging
those freed the blocks.

Only other block was:
*  x11-proto/xproto
      Latest version available: 7.0.7
      Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
      Size of files: 130 kB
      Homepage:      http://xorg.freedesktop.org/
      Description:   X.Org xproto protocol headers
      License:       xproto

... but a different version - I had to unmerge libX11 to clear the
block - I guess this means my X will be broken, but not the end of the
world, as this is a server.

aloha,
dave


On 3/1/07, Michael Irons <michael at beckonsmeby.com> wrote:
> On Thu March 1 2007, Dave Price wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I am trying to 'emerge -u world' my gentoo amd64 system.
> >
> > I get errors about blocking packeges ... so ran with --pretend and get:
> >
> > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> >
> > Calculating world dependencies  ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ... done!
> > [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kview-3.5* (is blocking
> > kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2) [blocks B     ]
> > =kde-base/kimagemapeditor-3.5* (is blocking
> > kde-base/kdewebdev-3.5.5)
> > [blocks B     ] =kde-base/ksmserver-3.5* (is blocking
> > kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r3) [blocks B     ] =kde-base/ktouch-3.5* (is
> > blocking kde-base/kdeedu-3.5.5) [blocks B     ] >=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.6
> > (is blocking x11-libs/libX11-1.0.1-r1) [blocks B     ]
> > =kde-base/kopete-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.5-r2) [blocks B
> >    ] =kde-base/kfloppy-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeutils-3.5.5) [blocks B
> >     ] =kde-base/kdepim-kresources-3.5*.....
> > etc, lots of stuff about kde
> >
> > I did emerge -C (unmerge?) against the list of blocks, and now emerge
> > --search say they are gone, but I still get the blocks when I try to
> > upgrade.
> >
> > Is there something I am missing?
>
> KDE caused me some problems also a few days ago...
>  It looks like you are trying to emerge meta-packages and the packages those
> meta-packages contain (or portage is trying to do that at least).
>
> If you don't know kde is in split packages:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml
>
> For example you can't emerge kde-base/kimagemapeditor and
> kde-base/kdewebdev (kdewebdev is the meta-package that contains
> kimagemapeditor). That's why you get all those blocks.
>
> Try tagging --tree on your emerge world statement and see what portage is
> trying to pull in and is causing the block, then work your way from there.
>
> --
>
> Michael Irons
> michael |at| beckonsmeby |dot| com
>
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-- 
aloha,
dave