A remote system I manage has a problem with perl.
Hasn't been updated in a while. I'm finding references to similar
problems, but can't figure this out.
I was updating portage, which wanted to update perl to 5.16.3, and now
perl seems to be broken.
perl-cleaner -p --reallyall produces:
!!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled
!!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
dev-lang/perl:0
(dev-lang/perl-5.16.2-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>=dev-lang/perl-5.16 required by
(perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.520.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
=dev-lang/perl-5.16* required by
(virtual/perl-File-Temp-0.220.0-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
(and 64 more with the same problems)
(dev-lang/perl-5.12.4-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled
in by
~dev-lang/perl-5.12.4 required by
(virtual/perl-Digest-SHA-5.47::gentoo, installed)
(and 1 more with the same problem)
(dev-lang/perl-5.14.2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
=dev-lang/perl-5.14* required by
(virtual/perl-digest-base-1.160.0-r1::gentoo, installed)
(and 1 more with the same problem)
It may be possible to solve this problem by using package.mask to
prevent one of those packages from being selected. However, it is also
possible that conflicting dependencies exist such that they are
impossible to satisfy simultaneously. If such a conflict exists in
the dependencies of two different packages, then those packages can
not be installed simultaneously. You may want to try a larger value of
the --backtrack option, such as --backtrack=30, in order to see if
that will solve this conflict automatically.
For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
page or refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
(see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
# required by virtual/perl-digest-base-1.160.0-r1
# required by perl-core/Digest-MD5-2.520.0
# required by virtual/perl-Digest-MD5-2.520.0
# required by dev-perl/Digest-HMAC-1.30.0
# required by dev-perl/Authen-SASL-2.160.0
# required by dev-vcs/git-1.8.3.2-r1[perl]
# required by dev-vcs/git:0 (argument)
# /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
# Torsten Veller <t...@gentoo.org> (18 Jun 2011)
# Mask perl-5.14. See tracker bug #356171
=dev-lang/perl-5.14.2
NOTE: The --autounmask-keep-masks option will prevent emerge
from creating package.unmask or ** keyword changes.
* perl-cleaner is stopping here:
* Fix the problem and start perl-cleaner again.
Any ideas?
