Re: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another?

[Peter O'Connor]

Mario Koppensteiner wrote: Hello Jayson Smith I had the same problem. I solved it with: host# emerge --nodeps --update net-ftp/proftpd and than host# emerge --deep --update world I hope this is the right way to solve the problem. Andy comments? mfg Mario Koppensteiner --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: "Jayson Smith" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> An: <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> Betreff: [gentoo-user] One package is blocking another? Datum: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 01:19:52 -0400 Hi, Several days ago I did an 'emerge --ask --nospinner -u world' to update my software as normal, but was told that ftpbase-0.00 was blocking proftpd-1.something. What, exactly, does this mean and what do I do about it? I want to continue using Proftpd, and don't know what Ftpbase is. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Jayson. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list The reason that the package was blocked was (from the changelog): 08 Jul 2005; Gustavo Felisberto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; +proftpd-1.2.10-r6.ebuild: New revision that uses the new net-ftp/ftpbase. Nice work there UberLord. The ftpbase functionality was removed from this version of proftpd onwards. ftpbase was unable to be installed with previous versions of proftpd installed as they both use the same files (if I recall correctly). As Olli posted from the man page Blockers are defined when two packages will clobber each others files. As emerge wants to build the dependencies of the new version of proftpd first (ie ftpbase), however it is unable to build ftpbase with the old version of proftpd installed. Your method of updating is just fine and avoids this conflict. I hope this makes sense, Peter