Am Wed, 14 Dec 2016 00:06:00 -0500 schrieb Philip Webb <purs...@ca.inter.net>:
> I just updated Qt5 to 5.6.2 & ran into a familiar Portage problem. > > The emerge command responds with a list of "conflicts", > all involving 5.6.1 vs 5.6.2 versions of the c 15 pkgs. > The only way to get around this is to unmerge the existing pkgs via > '-C', then install the new versions. That works, but it's brute > force. > > Portage sb able to resolve this kind of conflict for itself. > If not, then at least it should advise users intelligently > to do what I've just described. It can happen with other sets of > pkgs. > > Yes, I did do 'backtrack==30'. > > Before I send in a bug, does anyone else have useful comments ? I constantly see the same conflict and haven't nailed it down exactly right now. It seems to happen when one package requires a binary compatibility to an older version of a depend but can also be built against the newer version. Usually, emerge should trigger a rebuild then. But this doesn't seem to work when both packages (the depend and the depender) are updated at the same time. Portage then pulls in the old and the new version of the same package at the same time, resulting in a conflict. Upgrading the depends with "-1a" first sometimes helps but usually I'll also resolv it by unmerging the conflicting package first. -- Regards, Kai Replies to list-only preferred.
