Error: the <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 package .

jm_paulin · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 13 Location: UK

Hi there,

I am trying to "emerge -u system", and I get the following error:

!!! Error: the <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together.

So I looked in the ebuild, and there is a inncompatibility between Perl5.8.0 and MakeMaker-6.05. Is this expected ?

Does this mean that to complete the emerge -u system, I'll have to downgrade to perl 5.6?

Thanks for any help/hints on the next step. For now, I will forget about the -u system for the time being.

thanks

JM

TheCoop · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 3:42 pm Post subject:

to emerge perl<something>-r12 you need to unmerge whatever conflicts with it, not sure why but i think it now comes automatically with the perl ebuild
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jm_paulin · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 13 Location: UK

Yo

So that means that dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 is not compatible with dev-lang/perl, despite being required when doing emerge -u system?

Doesn't make sense at all. Am I missing something?

PT_LAmb · Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2003 4:05 pm Post subject:

here's an interesting topic...
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linux_weenie · Guru Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 365

yeah you need to remove all occurances of the blocking packages and then you can emerge the new perl with the updated versions. it took me a few days to figure this out, but it works. just don't let etc-update clobber your config file like i did

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panserg · Apprentice Joined: 16 Apr 2003 Posts: 188

Genone · Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2003 2:03 am Post subject:

It was a portage bug for these packages to get installed in the first place. This bug has been fixed, that's why all these block messages show up.

jm_paulin · n00b Joined: 26 Jul 2003 Posts: 13 Location: UK

Thanks a lot to all of you

emerge -C ExtUtils-MakeMaker was the solution for me.

Whaooooo

JM