This is a slightly longer dependency chain: dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo ("dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo" is blocking dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2014) There is only dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2012 available, which is required by virtual/texi2dvi-0, which is required by app-text/dvipng, which is required by: # equery d app-text/dvipng * These packages depend on app-text/dvipng: app-text/asciidoc-8.6.9-r1 (test ? app-text/dvipng) app-text/texlive-2012 (png ? app-text/dvipng) dev-python/ipython-3.2.1 (test ? app-text/dvipng) dev-python/matplotlib-1.4.2 (doc ? app-text/dvipng) (latex ? app-text/dvipng) dev-python/sphinx-1.2.2 (latex ? app-text/dvipng) dev-python/sympy-0.7.6 (png ? app-text/dvipng) updating to app-text/dvipng-1.15 does not work: # nice -n 19 emerge -pv1Nu app-text/dvipng These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies * waiting for lock on /var/db/.pkg.portage_lockfile ... [ ok ] ... done! [ebuild U ] dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0_p20140525:0/6.2.0::gentoo [6.1.0_p20120701:0/0::gentoo] USE="-doc -source -static-libs" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] app-text/dvipsk-5.994_p20140525::gentoo [5.992_p20120701::gentoo] USE="-doc -source" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] dev-tex/bibtexu-3.71_p20140525::gentoo [3.71_p20120701::gentoo] USE="-doc% -source%" 0 KiB [ebuild U ] app-text/ps2pkm-1.5_p20140525::gentoo [1.5_p20120701::gentoo] 0 KiB [ebuild U ] app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4::gentoo [2012-r1::gentoo] USE="X xetex -cjk -doc -source -tk" 0 KiB [blocks b ] <app-text/texlive-core-2013 ("<app-text/texlive-core-2013" is blocking dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0_p20140525, dev-tex/bibtexu-3.71_p20140525) [uninstall ] app-text/xdvipdfmx-0.7.8_p20120701::gentoo USE="-doc" [blocks b ] app-text/xdvipdfmx ("app-text/xdvipdfmx" is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4) [uninstall ] app-text/dvipdfmx-20110311-r1::gentoo [blocks b ] app-text/dvipdfmx ("app-text/dvipdfmx" is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4) [ebuild U ] dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014::gentoo [2012::gentoo] USE="-doc -source" 0 KiB [blocks b ] <dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014 ("<dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014" is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4) [ebuild U ] dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2014::gentoo [2012::gentoo] USE="-doc -source" 298 KiB [ebuild U ~] app-text/dvipng-1.15::gentoo [1.14::gentoo] USE="truetype {-test} (-t1lib%)" 168 KiB [blocks B ] <dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2013 ("<dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2013" is hard blocking dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014) [blocks B ] dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo ("dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo" is blocking dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2014) [blocks B ] dev-tex/luatex ("dev-tex/luatex" is blocking app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4) Total: 8 packages (8 upgrades, 2 uninstalls), Size of downloads: 465 KiB Conflict: 7 blocks (3 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2012 required by (app-text/texlive-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) (dev-tex/luatex-0.70.1-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=dev-tex/luatex-0.45 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) (app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-htmlxml-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) app-text/texlive-core required by (virtual/tex-base-0:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-langenglish-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-formatsextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2010[xetex] required by (dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (app-text/texlive-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-bibtexextra-2012-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-latexrecommended-2012-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-mathextra-2012-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-pictures-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-fontutils-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-latexextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2014 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >=app-text/texlive-core-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=app-text/texlive-core-2014 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2014:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) (dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (app-text/texlive-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-pictures-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-formatsextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-xetex-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-langenglish-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-fontsextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-latex-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-fontutils-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-genericextra-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-genericrecommended-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-htmlxml-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-fontsrecommended-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2014 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2014:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >=dev-texlive/texlive-basic-2012 required by (dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) (dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=dev-texlive/texlive-langgerman-2012 required by (app-text/texlive-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) (dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2014:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2013 required by (virtual/texi2dvi-0:0/0::gentoo, installed) >=dev-texlive/texlive-plainextra-2012 required by (app-text/texlive-2012:0/0::gentoo, installed) For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages Reproducible: Always I carefully checked the bugtracker, but i couldn't find a bug reporting this issue. Maybe i overlooked something...
You need to update *all* your tex-related packages at the same time to 2014. And try giving portage a large backtrack level so it can resolve all conflicts between dependencies. Something like "emerge -1 --update --deep --newuse --backtrack=30 dvipng texlive texlive-langgerman texlive-texinfo luatex". Add more ebuilds to the list if needed. Alternatively, "emerge -1 --deep --update --newuse --backtrack=30 @world" may do it.
Even when i set " --backtrack=100" i run into trouble w/ app-text/dvipng: dev-libs/kpathsea:0 (dev-libs/kpathsea-6.1.0_p20120701:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by dev-libs/kpathsea:0/0= required by (app-text/dvipng-1.15:0/0::gentoo, installed) ^^^^^ (dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0_p20140525:0/6.2.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by >=dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0 required by (app-text/texlive-core-2014-r4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) ^^ ^^^^^ (and 4 more with the same problem)
(In reply to Thomas Beutin from comment #2) Interesting. The solution is to explicitly update kpathsea (add "=dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0_p20140525" to your "emerge -1" arguments), but portage should have been able to understand that automatically... CC-ing portage devs.
Created attachment 410788 [details] texi2dvi-0-r1 ebuild patch # diff -ubB /usr/portage/virtual/texi2dvi/texi2dvi-0.ebuild /usr/local/portage/virtual/texi2dvi/texi2dvi-0-r1.ebuild Since dev-texlive/texlive-texinfo-2012 is a stub anyway this can be removed from the ebuild
Created attachment 410794 [details, diff] dvipng-1.15-r1 ebuild patch diff -ubB /usr/portage/app-text/dvipng/dvipng-1.15.ebuild /usr/local/portage/app-text/dvipng/dvipng-1.15-r1.ebuild After removing the trailing ':=' from "dev-libs/kpathsea" in RDEPEND "everything works fine for me"(tm). I'm not too deep into ebuild conding, but IIRC the trailing ':=' requests any slot, but since dev-libs/kpathsea is not slotted this might be the bug. But now dvipng links to the curent installed lib: # ldd /usr/bin/dvipng | grep kpathsea libkpathsea.so.6 => /usr/lib64/libkpathsea.so.6 (0x00007f88ffa00000) ls /usr/lib64/libkpathsea.* | cat /usr/lib64/libkpathsea.so /usr/lib64/libkpathsea.so.6 /usr/lib64/libkpathsea.so.6.2.0
(In reply to Alexandre Rostovtsev from comment #3) > (In reply to Thomas Beutin from comment #2) > > Interesting. The solution is to explicitly update kpathsea (add > "=dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0_p20140525" to your "emerge -1" arguments), but > portage should have been able to understand that automatically... > > CC-ing portage devs. It's not recommended to do anything other than emerge -uD @world for updates, since that gives the dependency resolver as much freedom as possible. What generally fail to understand is that commands like 'emerge -pv1Nu app-text/dvipng' constrain the dependency resolver to *only* update dvipng, which means that the calculation is *intended* to fail if any other changes are required.
(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #6) > It's not recommended to do anything other than emerge -uD @world for > updates, since that gives the dependency resolver as much freedom as > possible. What generally fail to understand is that commands like 'emerge > -pv1Nu app-text/dvipng' constrain the dependency resolver to *only* update > dvipng, which means that the calculation is *intended* to fail if any other > changes are required. Since this is a common problem, I've filed bug 559354 to add an emerge option which tells it to "update any packages necessary" (which --update does not do).
(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #6) > (In reply to Alexandre Rostovtsev from comment #3) > > (In reply to Thomas Beutin from comment #2) > > > > Interesting. The solution is to explicitly update kpathsea (add > > "=dev-libs/kpathsea-6.2.0_p20140525" to your "emerge -1" arguments), but > > portage should have been able to understand that automatically... > > > > CC-ing portage devs. > > It's not recommended to do anything other than emerge -uD @world for > updates, since that gives the dependency resolver as much freedom as > possible. What generally fail to understand is that commands like 'emerge > -pv1Nu app-text/dvipng' constrain the dependency resolver to *only* update > dvipng, which means that the calculation is *intended* to fail if any other > changes are required. This would also update dev-libs/boost and dev-util/boost-build from ~1.55.0 to ~1.56.0 which is a no-go on my system. But maybe i've not fully understood the ebuild system by now...
(In reply to Thomas Beutin from comment #8) > This would also update dev-libs/boost and dev-util/boost-build from ~1.55.0 > to ~1.56.0 which is a no-go on my system. But maybe i've not fully > understood the ebuild system by now... You can mask upgrades that you don't want in /etc/portage/package.mask.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 543290 ***
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 290818 ***
