Since a few days, Portage nags as follows: !!! One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-lang/php:5 (dev-lang/php-5.3.3-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with =dev-lang/php-5* required by (dev-php/awl-0.43, installed) (dev-lang/php-5.3.3-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-lang/php required by @selected The forum yielded no responses and as it looks like a bug to me, I'll give it a shot here. Sorry if it's a local issue only. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
Which portage version is that? There was a similar bug lately.
I'm currently on portage-2.1.9.21.
The problem is here: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=8f91b6615617af839a31e51bd3bb2048ea81ea56 We an improve it by optimizing the atom sort order so that =* operators have less priority than < or <= operators.
Even better would be to compare the version parts of the atoms.
(In reply to comment #0) > (dev-lang/php-5.3.3-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with > =dev-lang/php-5* required by (dev-php/awl-0.43, installed) Note: If you want a quick workaround, check the dev-lang/php atoms in /var/db/pkg/dev-php/awl-0.43/*DEPEND files.
This fixes it to do a more rigorous check for atoms that trigger conflicts: http://git.overlays.gentoo.org/gitweb/?p=proj/portage.git;a=commit;h=073a9c885ceb7be164b9287b2e0cb3f4b5584367
This is fixed in 2.1.9.22 and 2.2.0_alpha1.
On portage-2.1.9.22 I now get the following: !!! One or more updates have been skipped due to a dependency conflict: dev-lang/php:5 (dev-lang/php-5.3.3-r1, ebuild scheduled for merge) conflicts with dev-lang/php[pcre,pdo,postgres,xml] required by (dev-php/awl-0.43, installed)
What's the output of "emerge -pvq dev-lang/php"? You probably don't have the use flags for dev-lang/php set in a way that satisfies the dependency emerge prints there.
Here it is... [ebuild N ] dev-libs/oniguruma-5.9.2 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/php-5.3.3-r1 [5.2.14] USE="apache2 berkdb bzip2 cli crypt ctype fileinfo%* filter gd gdbm hash iconv json nls pdo phar%* posix postgres readline session simplexml ssl threads tokenizer unicode xml xmlreader xmlwriter zlib (-adabas) -bcmath (-birdstep) -calendar -cdb -cgi -cjk -concurrentmodphp -curl -curlwrappers -db2 (-dbmaker) -debug -doc -embed (-empress) (-empress-bcs) -enchant% (-esoob) -exif (-firebird) -flatfile -fpm% (-frontbase) -ftp -gd-external -gmp -imap -inifile -interbase -intl% -iodbc -ipv6 -kerberos -kolab -ldap -ldap-sasl -libedit -mssql -mysql -mysqli -mysqlnd% -oci8 -oci8-instant-client -odbc -pcntl -pic -qdbm -recode -sapdb -sharedext -sharedmem -snmp -soap -sockets (-solid) -spell -sqlite -sqlite3% -suhosin (-sybase-ct) -sysvipc -tidy -truetype -wddx -xmlrpc -xpm -xsl -zip (-dbase%) (-discard-path%) (-fdftk%) (-force-cgi-redirect%) (-mcve%) (-mhash%) (-msql%) (-ncurses%*) (-pcre%*) (-reflection%*) (-spl%*) (-yaz%)"
The newer php version doesn't have a pcre use flag. File a bug for dev-php/awl. Marking this bug as fixed again, as emerge prints the correct conflict atom.
I see, thanks for the hint. The bug is submitted as: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342597
