On Mon, Jun 18 2018, Mick wrote: > Hi Allan, > > On Monday, 18 June 2018 18:52:31 BST allan gottlieb wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 17 2018, Mick wrote: >> > On Sunday, 17 June 2018 22:04:50 BST allan gottlieb wrote: >> >> (I have been offline for a few months and apologize if this has been >> >> covered.) >> >> >> >> I had not synced for about 3 months (fear of new, incompatible gnucash) >> >> but have now done so. Unsurprisingly my normal update world shows many >> >> entries and also unsurprising is a blocker (slot conflict). > > As a first step I suggest you go through the 'eselect news read new'. > > There was a profile change sometime late last year. The profile change enews > is important and you should deal with it first. It is titled: > > 'New 17.0 profiles in the Gentoo repository' > > and it involves updating gcc as part of it and perhaps changing your profile > if it is due to be deprecated.
I had done the upgrade to 17.0 months ago. 17.1 is unstable so I believe 17.0 is the right profile for me. > Once you've been through all this give it another spin, but use > --backtrack=99 > to see if portage resolves the conflicts. backtrack=99 didn't change the situation, but adding in addition --autounmask-backtrack=y did! > I can't see a [B] in the list you provided, all are small blocks [b] which > portage will deal with on its own. The list I provided was for my update world. That has little b's. The only blockage I have is the slot conflict I mentioned originally. The big B's happened when I tried emerge -1pDv media-video/ffmpeg Thank you again. allan
