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Analyser
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 Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject: did Portage break itself? |
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First off, sorry for the rather unhelpful subject, but I couldn't think of a better description...
Anyway, just now I decided to update my system again, the last time being at least two weeks ago. I ran emerge rsync, and everything looked just peachy, but emerge -up world breaks with the following output:
| Code: | root@gandalf:~> emerge -up world
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
Calculating world dependencies /
!!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1" have been masked.
!!! (dependency required by "x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r2" [ebuild])
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To clarify, yesterday (so before the emerge rsync) I emerged perl-tk, and that went just fine. So just for kicks, I just tried pretend-emerging xpdf, and went OK, so I -can- install new software.
I've already reran emerge rsync, in the hopes of fetching a proper portage tree from a different server, but the problem persists.
I tried searching the forums for anything on fontconfig, but that didn't turn up anything related, so I seem to be the only one. Does anyone have a clue? Am I doing something wrong here?
Thanks in advance,
Analyser.
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David_Escott
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| Posted: Thu Apr 10, 2003 8:50 pm Post subject: |
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| give it some more time, this will eventually get fixed, it takes some time for changes to filter down the mirrors. |
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Analyser
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Ok, I'll just try it again in a couple of days then. Thanks for putting me at ease; I thought I might've broken my system..! 
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nikai
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I think your question was completely adequate. I can see such quirks in portage once in a while, especially on ppc.
It would be cool to have some sort of sanity checks wading through portage to prevent exactly such inconsistencies. |
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abhishek
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| nikai wrote: | I think your question was completely adequate. I can see such quirks in portage once in a while, especially on ppc.
It would be cool to have some sort of sanity checks wading through portage to prevent exactly such inconsistencies. |
If the insanaties that you are reffering to are corrupt ebuilds, portage now has this fixed. The digest now contains an md5sum of the ebuild itself. |
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nikai
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| Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2003 12:31 am Post subject: |
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That's very good news, however I rather meant in terms of dependancies:
| Code: | !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/fontconfig-2.1-r1" have been masked.
!!! (dependency required by "x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r2" [ebuild]) |
The question is, how come A is masked, but required by B?
In an ideal portage tree there would be only dependancies defined in a way to make that impossible to happen. Feeding a new ebuild into the tree you could tell instantly whether it would break any dependancy or not, and modify them accordingly. When a package gets masked for whatever reason, dozens of dependancies automagicaly resolve themselves... OK, that's maybe SF...
Would be nice, but it's surely very difficult to get there. |
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