Trying to upgrade libbonobo from 2.2.3 to 2.4.0 results in being blocked by bonobo-activation: /home/wolle $ emerge -vp libbonobo These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] gnome-base/bonobo-activation (from pkg gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0) [ebuild U ] gnome-base/ORBit2-2.8.1 [2.6.3] -doc +ssl [ebuild U ] gnome-base/libbonobo-2.4.0 [2.2.3] -doc /home/wolle $ emerge -vp bonobo-activation These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild R ] gnome-base/bonobo-activation-2.2.4 -doc /home/wolle $ This is my 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 AMD Athlon(tm) Processor ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer " 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/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/config" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -mcpu=athlon-tbird -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer " 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 jpeg gnome libg++ mad mikmod mmx mpeg ncurses nls pdflib png quicktime spell truetype xml2 xmms xv zlib gtkhtml alsa gdbm berkdb slang readline arts tetex bonobo svga tcltk java guile mysql postgres X sdl gpm tcpd pam libwww ssl perl python esd imlib oggvorbis gtk qt kde motif opengl mozilla cdr scanner apache2 gd plotutils ppds slp tiff" /home/wolle $ Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
IMHO I'm guessing the error is from this line in: libbonobo-2.4.0.ebuild !gnome-base/bonobo-activation" in libbonobo-2.2.3.ebuild it was: >=gnome-base/bonobo-activation-1 I've read the ebuild documentation and the use of the ! doesn't make sense to me when used this way...but I'm not to good at understanding ebuilds yet...
Maybe it should have been a "~" instead of a "!" A ~ would indicate selecting the newest version of bonobo-activation. This would be an easy mistake because both ~ and ! can represent a "NOT" (bitwise or logical) in different languages...but once again, I'm hardly an expert on this so I could be way off base :)
The "!gnome-base/bonobo-activation" line says that the user must uninstall bonobo-activation before upgrading libbonobo. To solve the problem run the following command: #emerge -C bonobo-activation I'm having my own issues with portage wanting to reinstall bonobo-activation after I remove it. I think that they're related to the fact that the mirrors are taking a while to get all of the newly stable gnome-2.4 ebuilds synchronized.
so we have the first bug, yay. bonobo-activation is now included in libbonobo. .) emerge gnome until the blocking dep is reached .) emerge -C bonobo-activation .) emerge gnome michael: no, the ! means (not) as in c-like languages and others, this is the correct behaviour. eric: please be patient, there are quite a lot of ebuilds to sync. i'm considering leaving this open because i daresay it wont be the only one we get.
amendment, the correct solution should be: .) emerge -C bonobo-activation .) emerge libbonobo gnome
Thanks for setting me straight! I understand what was going on now. On a side note, a more descriptive message from emerge would have helped me. Maybe this should be a bug in emerge to have a new enhancement. Again, thanks for the help!
*** Bug 30752 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
closing, since no other way to fix this kind of problem
