# emerge -uDpv world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating world dependencies ... done! [blocks B ] <app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 (is blocking app-emulatio n/vmware-workstation-5.5.3.34685) [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 [1.0.0.13] 290 kB [ebuild U ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.3.34685 [5.5.1.19175-r7] 108,913 kB ----------- # emerge --info Portage 2.1.1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1/desktop, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.4-r4, 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.18-gentoo-r3 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) MP 2600+ Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6 Last Sync: Sun, 03 Dec 2006 15:30:01 +0000 ccache version 2.3 [enabled] app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present] dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30 dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.3-r4 dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5 dev-util/ccache: 2.3 dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.60 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-r3 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.13-r4 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.17-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-mp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig candy ccache distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" LINGUAS="en cz" MAKEOPTS="-j3" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude='/distfiles' --exclude='/local' --exclude='/packages'" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa arts berkdb bitmap-fonts bzip2 cairo cdr cli cracklib crypt cups dbus dlloader dri dvd dvdr eds elibc_glibc emacs emboss encode esd fam firefox foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gimpprint gpm gstreamer hal iconv ieee1394 imagemagic input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog jpeg kde kernel_linux libg++ linguas_cz linguas_en mad mikmod mp3 mpeg ncurses nls nptl nptlonly ogg opengl oss pam pcre pdf perl pic png ppds pppd python qt3 qt4 quicktime readline reflection ruby sdl session spell spl ssl tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode usb userland_GNU video_cards_nv video_cards_vesa vorbis win32codecs xml xorg xv zlib" Unset: CTARGET, EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY
emerge -C \<app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15
(In reply to comment #1) > emerge -C \<app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 > Thanks, this worked for me too. What puzzles me is why the above command happily removed version 1.0.0.13 of the vmware-modules that I had in place.
(In reply to comment #2) > Thanks, this worked for me too. What puzzles me is why the above command > happily removed version 1.0.0.13 of the vmware-modules that I had in place. Why it wouldn't... It will unmerge any version <1.0.0.15, which is exactly what the blocker is about. (BTW, recent ~arch portage versions should handle this gracefully and upgrade the stuff, can give it a try)
