"emerge -uDp world" or a "emerge -up world" results are the same. Some same characteristics of BUGS--->24875 & 30196. Example: emerge -up world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] app-editors/nano-1.2.2 [1.2.1] [ebuild U ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.3.21 [4.3.18] [blocks B ] net-www/netscape-flash (from pkg net-www/gplflash-0.4.10-r3) [ebuild U ] net-www/gplflash-0.4.10-r3 [0.4.10-r2] Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge -up world 2. emerge -uDp world 3. Actual Results: The same as described above in "Details" box. Expected Results: Upgraded/Compiled emerge info Portage 2.0.49-r3 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.2.3, glibc-2.3.2-r1, 2.4.20-gentoo-r7) ================================================================= System uname: 2.4.20-gentoo-r7 i686 Pentium III (Coppermine) ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="gcc3" 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" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium3 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="sandbox ccache autoaddcvs" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 oss apm avi crypt cups encode foomaticdb gif gpm jpeg gnome libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gdbm berkdb slang readline arts svga java X sdl tcpd pam ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl"
gplflash is for flash <=4 only, netscap-flash can AFAIk handle all flash versions. Because of this, we yesterday added a block to the ebuilds. emerge -C gplflash
Was this resolution something that I should've been able to find without opening a bug ticket? If so where specifically is this kindof info posted. I searched everywhere it seemed and couldn't find anything close except the two other bug # references. Thanks, Joshua Banks
the answer is 'common sense' ... if 2 packages block each other then there is a reason for it ... specifically, they cannot exist simultaneously on your system ... so either unmerge them or stop trying to do whatever you're trying to do ;)
