on Saturday 12/08/2007 Daniel Pielmeier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> John covici schrieb:
> > on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> > > On (08/12/07 18:46) Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
> > > > John covici schrieb:
> > > >> on Saturday 12/08/2007 Rumen Yotov([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> > > >> > John covici ??????:
> > > >> > > Sorry if this is a duplicate -- II never got it back, so I am
> > sending
> > > >> > > it again.
> > > >> > > > > Hi. I was trying to do an emerge --update --deep
> > --with-bdeps=y
> > > >> world
> > > >> > > and got the following error:
> > > >> > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy
> > ">=sys-auth/policykit-0.6"
> > > >> have
> > > >> > > been masked.
> > > >> > > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to
> > complete your
> > > >> > > request:
> > > >> > > - sys-auth/policykit-0.6 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> > > >> > > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> > > >> > > # Saleem Abdulrasool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Nov 2007)
> > > >> > > # Mask this until we get the input and mounting issues worked
> > out
> > > >> > > > > In view of this comment, should I unmaks it anyway and if
> > not,
> > > >> how can
> > > >> > > I get past this one?
> > > >> > > > > Any assistance would be appreciated.
> > > >> > > > Hi,
> > > >> > Just add "-t"(--tree) to your emerge command, it'll probably show
> > which
> > > >> > app requires policykit.
> > > >> > Then mask the update (not policykit) till the issues are fixed.
> > > >> > Or omit --deep which could eventually help here.
> > > >> Well it said that dependency required by "sys-apps/hal-0.5.10"
> > > >> [ebuild] so how do I prevent the update of hal and still be able
> > > >> to let the rest of them go through? The -t gave nothing more.
> > > >
> > > > sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 is masked itself. Why have you unmasked it?
> > > >
> > > > Remove the unmask of hal-0.5.10 and go back to version 0.5.9.1-r3,
> > The
> > > > masked version needs policykit, so no way around this!
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> > > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > +1 - please check the contents of your: /etc/portage/package.unmask file
> > > IIRC.
> > > Remove (comment) any entries you don't know why they are there.
> > > Could also check the system profile: ls -ld /etc/make.profile
> >
> > OK, I remasked hal and got the following:
> >
> > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10" have been
> > masked.
> > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> > request:
> > - sys-apps/hal-0.5.10 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86 keyword)
> > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> > # Saleem Abdulrasool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Nov 2007)
> > # Mask this until we get the input and mounting issues worked out
> >
> >
> > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> > page or
> > refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> > (dependency required by "app-misc/hal-info-20071011" [ebuild])
> >
> >
> >
> > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-sound/alsa-utils
> > !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> >
> > and if I then remask hal-info I get
> >
> > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy "gnome-extra/policykit-gnome" have
> > been masked.
> > !!! One of the following masked packages is required to complete your
> > request:
> > - gnome-extra/policykit-gnome-0.6 (masked by: package.mask, ~x86
> > keyword)
> > /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask:
> > # Saleem Abdulrasool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (23 Nov 2007)
> > # Mask this until we get the input and mounting issues worked out
> >
> >
> > For more information, see MASKED PACKAGES section in the emerge man
> > page or
> > refer to the Gentoo Handbook.
> > (dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.7" [ebuild])
> >
> >
> >
> > !!! Problem resolving dependencies for media-sound/alsa-utils
> > !!! Depgraph creation failed.
> >
> > So you see wher we go, it would cancel all updates of gnome or a lot
> > of them.
> >
> >
>
> I would suggest to leave all packages which are hard-masked in it's
> state as there are always reasons why packages are hard-masked
>
> sys-apps/hal-0.5.10
> hal-info-20071011
> gnome-extra/policykit-gnome-0.6
> gnome-base/gnome-mount-0.7
>
> If gnome is really the issue then it shouldn't go stable when a
> dependency is not stable!
What I would like to do is get gnome-2.20 -- this is my real problem
and since a lot of packages were masked either by ~x86 or hard mask --
this is how the whole thing got started -- actually a lot of these
were done for gnome 2.18.
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