Weird sys-libs/talloc block

JustGags · n00b Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 32

How/why is an older version blocking the newer versions? Any thoughts?

# emerge talloc -pv

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild U ] sys-libs/talloc-2.0.7 [2.0.1-r2] USE="-compat -python% (-doc%) (-static-libs%) (-swig%)" 363 kB
[blocks B ] <sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5 ("<sys-libs/talloc-2.0.5" is blocking sys-libs/talloc-2.0.7)

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade), Size of downloads: 363 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)

* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.

(sys-libs/talloc-2.0.7::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
sys-libs/talloc required by (net-fs/samba-3.5.11::gentoo, installed)
talloc

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

leifbk · Posted: Sun Feb 26, 2012 5:05 pm Post subject:

Don't know why, but I just unmerged the old one. It's not a critical package.
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Hu · Moderator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 16707

This construct often appears as a workaround when the upstream build system improperly links the code it is building to the old versions of its libraries already installed on the system. Remove the old version, then install the new one.

epsilon72 · Guru Joined: 20 Sep 2007 Posts: 568

I ran into this too, today. I did what Hu says: