Portage 2.0.51 Question

Mayday · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 13

I am using RC1 as of today and I get a weird change now, how would you deal with this to not show the blocking?

server ~ # emerge -Dup world

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] sys-kernel/linux-headers (from pkg sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1)

Just curious, I think the portage docs are of little use now with the update.

Thanks for the help.

ghostn9e · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:05 pm Post subject:

the linux-headers ARE NOT supposed to show up in World for that very reason, delete the linux-headers entry in /var/cache/edb/world

and when u update your linux headers, emerge with --oneshot so it doesnt get written into world file.

you dont want to unknowingly b0rk ur system because u updated ur linux headers and didnt recompile glibc...

[edit]
if u want to update ur linux headers, uninstall the old ones first, then emerge the new one

UncleOwen · Posted: Thu Sep 16, 2004 11:09 pm Post subject:

ghostn9e · Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2004 3:31 pm Post subject:

sorry about that, didnt mean to post the old location :oops:

Mayday · n00b Joined: 12 Mar 2004 Posts: 13

I checked the world file and the headers are not included in it. Any more ideas? I can post the world file etc. I think it is a bug in the new portage.

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

Do you somehow have both linux26-headers and linux-headers? You could check with ls:

Phlogiston · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject:

Hmm I just did what you said, but portage always wants to emerge my old headers....

dfy · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 05 Apr 2004 Posts: 79

It's a problem with xterm, I'd say. xterm has weird dependencies, I can't use emerge -uDp world anymore because xterm always tries to install xorg while I already have xorg-cvs. Unfortunately, removing xterm from the world file didn't have any effect, it still shows up in emerge -uDpv world, but it's NOT a dependency of any other package... Why?

oberyno · Guru Joined: 15 Feb 2004 Posts: 467 Location: /bin/zsh

Try adding x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0 to your /etc/portage/profiles/package.provided. That should fix xterm trying to pull in xorg-x11.

Note: The above only works if you're using a new portage.