When I try to update world, perl-5.8.0-r12 is blocked, preventing me from updating. This might be related to a problem with portage-2.0.48-r6... my first problem was that portage would crash when trying to update world. I checked for an update, and ended up downgrading. Both my machines had been running r6, and had to be downgraded to r5 before things worked properly. After resolving that problem, I ran into this: euripedes:~$ sudo emerge -u --deep world Calculating world dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 package conflicts with this package and both can't be installed on the same system together. euripedes:~$ sudo emerge -p -u --deep world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r10] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 [0.82] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 [0.47] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/Storable-2.07-r1 [2.07] [ebuild U ] dev-perl/PDL-2.4.0-r1 [2.4.0] euripedes:~$ sudo emerge -p -u perl These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [blocks B ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r10] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -u world 2. 3. Actual Results: Portage gives an error about conflicting packages, then quits. Expected Results: Portage should have updated packages which needed updating. euripedes:~$ sudo emerge info Portage 2.0.48-r5 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r5 i686 Pentium III (Katmai) GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ http://gentoo.mirrors.pair.com/ f tp://ftp.gtlib.cc.gatech.edu/pub/gentoo http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distrib utions/gentoo" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /var/qmail/control /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3/share /config /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" USE="x86 oss foomaticdb gif libg++ mad mikmod ncurses pdflib xml2 gdbm berkdb sl ang arts tetex svga tcltk ruby sdl tcpd pam libwww python motif 3dnow acpi alsa apm avi cdr crypt cups curl dga doc dvd encode esd gnome gpm gps gtk imlib java jpeg kde mmx mozilla mpeg mysql -nls oggvorbis opengl pda perl png qt quicktime readline scanner spell sse ssl tiff truetype usb X Xaw3d xmms xv zlib" COMPILER="gcc3" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-Wall" CXXFLAGS="-march=pentium3 -O3 -pipe" ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" MAKEOPTS="-j3" AUTOCLEAN="yes" SYNC="rsync://edge/gentoo-portage" FEATURES="sandbox ccache"
why dont you unmerge the blockers and try again *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 24876 ***
