There was a blog entry on planet gentoo recently about this: http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/seemant/2006/06/02/utemptations_with_xterm
It looks like you have to unmerge utempter and then emerge libutempter and rebuild xterm. On Saturday, 3 June 2006 22:48, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > When doing an > > emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world > > I received the following error > > These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order: > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) [ebuild U ] x11-terms/xterm-207-r1 [207] > -Xaw3d +doc -toolbar +truetype +unicode 727 kB [ebuild N ] > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1 21 kB > > Total size of downloads: 749 kB > > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > installed !!! on the same system. > > I *thought* I knew what to do when such a blockage occurs. I > > 1. did a quickpge utempter (for safety) > > 2. unmerged utempter > > 3. emerged libutempter > > 4. re-emerged utempter (from the portage tree not /usr/portage/packages) > > No errors were reported during any of these 4 steps. But now an > emerge world reports > > Calculating world dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] sys-apps/utempter (is blocking > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1) [nomerge ] x11-terms/xterm-207-r1 > -Xaw3d +doc -toolbar +truetype +unicode [nomerge ] > sys-libs/libutempter-1.1.2.1 > > Total size of downloads: 0 kB > > !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be > installed !!! on the same system. > > Reading the ebuilds I can see the problem. > > * both: PROVIDE="virtual/utempter" > > * libutempter demands exclusivity: DEPEND="!virtual/utempter" > > So they really do block. Which one am I supposed to keep and which > one should I unmerge ... > > ... and how should I have figured this out? > > What is the correct procedure when a blockage is encountered? Should > I write a wiki page with this information? > > thanks, > allan -- Raymond Lewis Rebbeck -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
