I wanted to emerge pine. Pine is blocked by uw-imap as discussed in #105313. Therefore I wanted to uninstall uw-imap but I cannot. Here is the ouput: ## snip ## hannibal ~ # emerge -pv pine These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [blocks B ] <net-mail/uw-imap-2004g-r1 (is blocking net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g) [blocks B ] <=net-mail/uw-imap-2004g (is blocking mail-client/pine-4.64-r3) [ebuild N ] net-mail/uw-mailutils-2004g 2,194 kB [ebuild N ] mail-client/pine-4.64-r3 USE="pam ssl -debug -kerberos -largeterminal -ldap -passfile" 3,206 kB Total size of downloads: 5,400 kB hannibal ~ # emerge -C net-mail/uw-imap-2004g-r1 net-mail/uw-imap-2004g --- Couldn't find net-mail/uw-imap-2004g-r1 to unmerge. --- Couldn't find net-mail/uw-imap-2004g to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge. hannibal ~ # ls /usr/portage/net-mail/uw-imap/ ChangeLog files Manifest metadata.xml uw-imap-2004g-r1.ebuild uw-imap-2004g-r2.ebuild hannibal ~ # emerge uw-mailutils-2004g Calculating dependencies !!! 'uw-mailutils-2004g' is not a valid package atom. !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. !!! (Did you specify a version but forget to prefix with '='?) hannibal ~ # ls /usr/portage/net-mail/uw-mailutils/ ChangeLog files Manifest metadata.xml uw-mailutils-2004g.ebuild ## snap ## How can I resolve the blocker and install pine? I did an emerge sync last night, as well as emerge --regen and emerge --metadata. Here is my emerge --info: ## snip ## Portage 2.1_pre7-r4 (default-linux/x86/2005.1, gcc-3.4.6, glibc-2.4-r1, 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.15-gentoo-r7 i686 AMD Duron(tm) Processor Gentoo Base System version 1.12.0_pre16 dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r1, 2.3.3, 2.3.4, 2.4.2-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19, 2.6.11-r3 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-mtune=athlon -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/share/config:/usr/kde/3.3/env:/usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-mtune=athlon -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/store/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://pandemonium.tiscali.de/pub/gentoo/" LANG="de_DE" LINGUAS="de" PKGDIR="/store/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/store/portage/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/store/portage/overlay" SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowext X a52 aac alsa apache2 apm arts artswrappersuid audiofile automount avi bcmath berkdb bitmap-fonts browserplugin bzip2 calendar cddb cdparanoia cdr crypt ctype cups curl curlwrappers dba dga directfb divx4linux dlloader dri dv dvd dvdr dvdread e1-fonts eds effects emboss encode exif fame ffmpeg firefox flac foomaticdb fortran ftp gd gdbm gif gimp gimpprint gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal hbci iconv icu imap imlib imlib2 innodb ipv6 isdnlog java javascript jpeg jpeg2k kde lcms libg++ libwww linguas_de linguas_en_GB lzw-tiff mad matrox mhash mikmod mjpeg mmx mmxext mng mono motif mozcalendar mozdevelop mozilla mozp3p mozsvg mozxmlterm mp3 mpeg mplayer musepack musicbrainz mysql ncurses network nls nptl nptlonly nsplugin odbc ofx ogg oggvorbis opengl oss pam pascal pcre pda pdflib perl php pic plugin png pppd print python qt quicktime quotes rar rdesktop readline ruby samba sblive scanner screen sdl session simplexml slang sndfile speex spell sql ssl subversion svg svga tcpd tidy tiff truetype truetype-fonts typ type1-fonts unicode usb v4l vcd vorbis win32codecs wma wmf x86 xface xine xinerama xml xml2 xmlrpc xmms xprint xsl xv xvid zip zlib elibc_glibc input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse input_devices_vmmouse kernel_linux userland_GNU video_cards_mga video_cards_vesa video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vmware video_cards_vga" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS ## snap ## Thanks for your help, Thomas
Yeah, I'd suggest reading the docs on basics of working with portage, at least man emerge... emerge -C net-mail/uw-imap
(In reply to comment #1) > Yeah, I'd suggest reading the docs on basics of working with portage, at least > man emerge... Thanks for your kind help, Jakub. Sometimes one ist stuck in the middle. > emerge -C net-mail/uw-imap It simply did not occur to me that 2004g was part of the version number. Apart from that I feel pretty comfortable with portage and I am a regular user of documentation. But sometimes things are not obvious which is why I like OSS. Some kind people from somewhere have a solution. Light for the blind. Your suggestion worked for me. Cheers, Thomas
