Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Michael Moore
On 12:40 Thu 13 Nov , Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > > later portage > > Why ? > > I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 12:40:29 +0100, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > > later portage > > Why ? Because some of them require a later EAPI than portage 2.1 provides. You'll be told if you try to install such a package. -- Ne

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Nicolas Sebrecht
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:14:44AM +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > Some of the testing ebuilds require a > later portage Why ? I'm running a mixed system here with sys-apps/portage-2.1.4.4 without any problem¹. What kind of changes in ebuilds explains the use of p

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 10:13:23 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > ps. Will it be ok if I upgrade portage to an unstable version while It's not unstable, it's testing. > running a stable portage tree? There's no such thing. There is one portage tree with different ARCH settings for individual ebuilds. Some

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dale
Dirk Uys wrote: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to >> update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that >> version is blocked by the existing player. There are

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Dirk Uys
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Each vmware package depends on a specific modules version. In order to > update vmware-player, you must first update vmware-modules,but that > version is blocked by the existing player. There are two alternatives > > Unm

Re: [gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-13 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:38:05 +0200, Dirk Uys wrote: > I'm running a stable gentoo installation and getting a block on > vmware-player: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 > [2.0.5.109488] 61,559 kB > [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 478 kB > [blocks B

[gentoo-user] vwmare-player block

2008-11-12 Thread Dirk Uys
Hi I'm running a stable gentoo installation and getting a block on vmware-player: [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-player-2.5.0.118166 [2.0.5.109488] 61,559 kB [ebuild N] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 478 kB [blocks B ] >=app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.23 (is blocking app