Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2017-01-15 11:28 AM, wabe wrote: > > > Since some days, portage moans about a dependency conflict when I > > update my system: > > > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 KiB > > > > WARNING: One or more updates/rebuilds have been skipped due to a > > dependency conflict: > > > > app-text/xmlto:0 > > > > (app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for > > merge) conflicts with > > >=app-text/xmlto-0.0.26-r1[text(+)] required by > > >(x11-misc/xdg-utils-1.1.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) > > > > > > > Nothing to merge; quitting. > > > > > > I don't understand this because these versions are already > > installed on my system: > > > > [I] app-text/xmlto > > Available versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2} ~0.0.28-r1 {latex text} > > Installed versions: 0.0.26-r1{tbz2}(19:30:25 12/02/15)(text > > -latex) > > > > [I] x11-misc/xdg-utils > > Available versions: 1.1.1^t{tbz2} 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2} {doc > > +perl} Installed versions: 1.1.1-r1^t{tbz2}(20:14:37 01/15/17)(doc > > perl) > > > > > > > > How can a package conflict with itself (same version)? > > > > -- > > Regards > > wabe > > > > From what I can tell it's telling you that the xmlto package is too > old. xdg-utils needs a newer version, and I suspect that it's marked > unstable. If you unmask a newer version of xmlto the error will go > away.
That was also my first thought. But then I noticed the "greater or equal" sign ">=". According to that, the installed version should be sufficient. And I also expect that a stable package doesn't depend on an unstable (~amd64) one. However you are right. Unmasking xmlto resolved the conflict. Thanks for the hint. -- Regards wabe