Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-28 Thread lee
James writes: > If we have some quick way to install, then systems could be setup, > customized, used for testing and torn down again, all in a few hours? I'd > focus on simple, minimized installs and it would give the user base a way to > duplicate systems for problem verification and resolutio

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread James
Alan McKinnon gmail.com> writes: > > Sounds like you're volunteering, Alan. > I do have some of the required skills, and I have free time right now. Ah; stepping up are we? I'll be hoping you are taking requests on the 'portage thingy' ? How'z about extending emerge with a few extra commands

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Monday 23 March 2015 11:59:23 Alan McKinnon wrote: > Maybe I'll have a deeper look into portage's code with a view to > improving this area. No promises thought :-) So we'll expect to see you again, wringing your hands and shivering, in about six months then... :) -- Rgds Peter.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 23/03/2015 11:55, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits >> about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, >> and to be honest, portage is not helping at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-23 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Sunday 22 March 2015 23:22:33 Alan McKinnon wrote: > This is one of the things that is starting to real get on my damn tits > about portage, for about 2 years now. It's not an easy problem to solve, > and to be honest, portage is not helping at all. You have two options in > running it: don't u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Sadly, you don't know. There is no clue in any of the output you > posted that this is required, so your only solution is to ask the > collective memory of the community. Lucky for you and others, Jonathan > was aware of the problem and was kind enough to post the solution. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 22/03/2015 20:08, lee wrote: > Jonathan Callen writes: > >> On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: >>> Tom H writes: >>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the > maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Jonathan Callen writes: > On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: >> Tom H writes: >> >>> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon >>> wrote: It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice. From the ebuild for apcupsd-3.14.8-r

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-03-22 09:04, lee wrote: > Tom H writes: > >> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon >> wrote: >>> >>> It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the >>> maintainer of apcupsd didn't notice. From the ebuild for >>> apc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-22 Thread lee
Jonathan Callen writes: > On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: >> Hi, >> >> when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep >> --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the >> following message: >> >> >> * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be *

[gentoo-user] Re: blockage

2015-03-21 Thread Jonathan Callen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 2015-03-21 23:24, lee wrote: > Hi, > > when trying to update with 'emerge -j 8 -a --update --deep > --with-bdeps=y @world' after 'emerge --sync', I'm getting the > following message: > > > * Error: The above package list contains packages whic

[gentoo-user] Re: Blockage problem

2006-10-26 Thread Harm Geerts
On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:11, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > I tried to install Crossover-Office-Pro-Bin and i got the following > blockage message: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking > x11-libs/libXau-1.0.2, x11-libs/libXext-1.0.2, x11-li