Bug 118121

Summary:	openmotif-2.2.3-r3 blocks motif-config, wich is required to update to openmotif-2.2.3-r8
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Pim Nijdam <pim.n>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	2005.1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Pim Nijdam 2006-01-06 17:15:32 UTC

I installed openmotif-2.2.3-r3. When I tried 'emerge -uDav world' portage complained that motif-config was blocked by openmotif-2.2.3-r3. But motif-config was needed by openmotif-2.2.3-r8, the version to wich portage would update.

My workaround was to uninstall openmotif-2.2.3-r3 prior to running 'emerge -uD world'.

So, the current version blocked something needed by a newer version. The obvious solution would be to uninstall the current version prior to installing the blocked package and the newer version. This was exactly the woraround I performed.

I'm not sure if this is something specific to these ebuilds or that it is portage who doesn't know how to handle this correctly. I suspect the latter; so other ebuilds may suffer from this as well.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-01-06 17:18:23 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 117057 ***