Updating world fails

eyoung100 · Veteran Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 1428

Try:
/etc/portage/package.use
net-fs/cifs-utils ads

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21591

sk3l · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:45 am Post subject:

I have neither the acl flag globally enabled in make.conf, nor do I have it anywhere in package.keywords. The same holds true for -ads.

I just --sync'd this evening, and am running into the same problem.

Unless I'm missing something, there appears to be something buggered with the cifs-utils ebuild, or in whatever dependency chain it's using to resolve its USE flags.

Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 21591

Please post the output of emerge --info net-fs/cifs-utils. You should always post or link to emerge --info when seeking assistance with dependency resolution.

eyoung100 · Veteran Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 1428

USE Flags in question:

acl: Add support for Access Control Lists
ads: Local Flag Enable support for Active Directory Services and create cifs.idmap binary - idmap support(net-fs/cifs-utils)

Proof ads Flag exists:

sk3l · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 1:41 pm Post subject:

Thanks for your help Hu.

I actually wasn't posting in search of a solution. I had already put in place the fix referenced by eyoung (i.e. adding ads to package.use) and gotten past this issue. I was merely pointing out that I had not touched anything with my environment's pertinent USE flag configuration in the intervening time between yesterday and the last time I'd emerge'd @world (not at home right now or I'd qlop and see when that was). In other words, I had not explicitly requested the conflicting USE flags acl and -ads with respect to cifs-utils, but yet the problem was still there.

_______0 · Guru Joined: 15 Oct 2012 Posts: 521

but did you sync?

USE flags changes periodically, get re-arrange and so on. Therefore, after a new sync new USE flags may appear and the conflict reflects these changes.

Perhaps not 'best practices' to do but you could emerge world by hand until isolate that conflicting package. A single package shouldn't prevent from properly update the rest.

sk3l · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 2:12 pm Post subject:

Yes, I always --sync prior to emerging (with -N) @world.

I agree with your point regarding USE flags changing (sometimes under our feet), and that appears to be what happened in this instance.

eyoung100 · Veteran Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 1428

sk3l · Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2013 8:57 pm Post subject:

Interesting, the man page for emerge mentions that --newuse will also pick up USE flags that are added/removed to the package, or flipped by way of your profile, which seems to imply more than what the user explicitly sets. It doesn't really cost me anything except potentially wasted cycles, and I invested in a hexacore i7 to make sure I have enough of those to go around, so no harm done.

I'll check into ufed, thanks for sharing.

eyoung100 · Veteran Joined: 23 Jan 2004 Posts: 1428