On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 07:57:27PM +0000, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > On Wednesday 13 August 2003 17:43, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm having a problem understanding how to actually handle a blocked > > package in emerge and move forward. I've attached a portion of what I'm > > seeing in my xterm, along with the little bit of the man page on emerge > > that seems to apply, but I don't know how to go forward properly. I hope > > someone can give me the emerge 101 lesson on blocked package handling. > > The exactly same problem was already discussed and answered in the mailing > list and the GWN. > Your are obviously lazy, but I answer nonetheless ;o) > > unmerge the blockers. > The packets that are blocking are from now on provided by perl. > > > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg > > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg > > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg > > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r11]
Just be careful not to do what I did - don't unmerge the blockers until they appear at the top of the list. I had "emerge -p" output that looked like this: [ U ] (some package) [ U ] (some other package) [ U ] (some other package...) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r11] I unmerged those two blockers before emerging. It turned out that emerge had dependencies on the functions in those packages, and my further attempts to emerge failed until I improvised some repairs. Nathan Meyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
