Re: circular blocking - howto escape ?

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circular blocking - howto escape ?
\ Helmut Jarausch (15 Apr 2008)
. \ Alan McKinnon (15 Apr 2008)
. \ Alan McKinnon (15 Apr 2008)

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Subject:	Re: circular blocking - howto escape ?
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	Alan McKinnon
Date:	15 Apr 2008

On Tuesday 15 April 2008, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I try to update a system.
> I try to start by updating portage, but ...
>
> emerge -vp sys-apps/portage
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/sandbox-1.2.20_alpha2-r1 [1.2.17] 272 kB
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.1.5_rc3 [2.1.2.9] USE="doc -build
> -epydoc (-selinux)" LINGUAS="-pl" 436 kB *** Portage will stop
> merging at this point and reload itself, then resume the merge.
> [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.2_p33 [3.2_p15-r1] USE="nls -afs
> -bashlogger -plugins% -vanilla" 2,564 kB [blocks B ]
> <sys-apps/portage-2.1.4_rc1 (is blocking app-shells/bash-3.2_p33)

More info on this after my last post, courtesy of google:

http://www.nabble.com/Portage-issue-td15256634i20.html

solution is in the lower half of the page, you can ignore the joking
chat-chat that infests the top half :-)

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Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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