Portage infinite loop(solved)

[jshanab]

I am stuck in an infinite loop of broken lib dependencies and failing ebuilds.

Almost every time something new has errors, this time it is gnome-games. But more than once a revdep-rebuild has installed cairo 0.2 only to produce a block for the required cairo 1.0.2. I clear that up only to get stuck, find the recomendation that I need to run rev-dep rebuild which fails and has to be tweaked to get thru then back to the same blocking again.

What am I missing?

This machine has been gentoo for years and recently suffered from a "full root directory during an ebuild" crash that required pulling the plug.
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ghidra: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD64 with xfce4 across 2 monitors; reiserfs on LVM2
hamal: Gentoo 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, athlonxp 1600 with gnome,reiserfs, LVM2.
jeffnote Gentoo 2.6.20-suspend2-r?, IBM T22
HTC_apache: Next convert, my ppc6700 phone

[pjp]

Have you tried unmerging cairo, then running revdep-rebuild?
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[jshanab]

That is how I know I am in the loop.
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ghidra: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD64 with xfce4 across 2 monitors; reiserfs on LVM2
hamal: Gentoo 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, athlonxp 1600 with gnome,reiserfs, LVM2.
jeffnote Gentoo 2.6.20-suspend2-r?, IBM T22
HTC_apache: Next convert, my ppc6700 phone

[jshanab]

Cairo is the problem. Emerge -uDav world wants to downgrade which causes an immediate problem with gtk-2.8.1
If I unmerge cairo and re-merge it seperately it goes to cairo 1.0.2 as expected by ~x86
changing this to x86 bombs out emerge with pango and gtk2 needing it

I have serched and tried a couple of things including emerge -pUv package for each package in the list and I can't find one package calling for the downgrade. tried -uDNpvt and -tuD options also.

I am at a standstill untill i can figure out what is causing emerge -uDav world to want to downgrade cairo.

I am gonna do each one manually in the order suggested, maybe that will reveal something.
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ghidra: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD64 with xfce4 across 2 monitors; reiserfs on LVM2
hamal: Gentoo 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, athlonxp 1600 with gnome,reiserfs, LVM2.
jeffnote Gentoo 2.6.20-suspend2-r?, IBM T22
HTC_apache: Next convert, my ppc6700 phone

[pjp]

Does the problem occur with just "emerge -pvt world", "emerge -puvt world", or "emerge -puDvt world"? Or all? If it doesn't occur with one of those commands, post the output from it, plus the output of the first command that it does happen with.

All versions of cairo in portage (as of my sync earlier today) have SLOT=0, so unless that is a mistake, something else is depending on a specific version/range of versions. Cairo itself is probably not the issue. Such is the danger of running ~arch.
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[jshanab]

~arch use to be so good. Now, I am affraid that portage has grown so much that it means the whole gambit from alpha to beta, I am sure it is getting imposible to regression test against such a moving target. I converted all my systems to arch but that was unusable without adding a lot to package.keywords. Especially when most the time the bug fixes are in the ~branch and fixes never make it into the stable. A pure "stable" system is getting impossible because adding one thing that has gone from ~ to stable breaks other things that depend on . but back to the problem, i have been manually emerging and etc-updateing in the hopes that it will catch something missed.

[pjp]

Yep, I'd say it's oregano:

[jshanab]

Thanks!
How about that, This happens to be an example of what I was saying. I have to put oregano in ~arch to get past the downgrade that causes other software blocks and portage interuptions. It is near impossible to have a purely arch system and as I add package after package to ~arch in package.keywords, do I really still have a "stable" system? no. Is it not ok to have both on the system or are we talking about a dll that only has one name ie a program calls cairo without reguards to the version.

I guess we can call this protage hell
tryto ~arch oregano
reuires ~arch gnomelibs,libgnomeprint,libgnomeprintui,gtksourceview,libgnomecanvas,libgnomeui

these are discovered only one at a time during emerge -uDav world and have to be added to package.keywords. I would like to smooth up that process.

SOLVED, portage is back on it's merry way
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ghidra: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 x86_64 AMD64 with xfce4 across 2 monitors; reiserfs on LVM2
hamal: Gentoo 2.6.16-gentoo-r4, athlonxp 1600 with gnome,reiserfs, LVM2.
jeffnote Gentoo 2.6.20-suspend2-r?, IBM T22
HTC_apache: Next convert, my ppc6700 phone

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