>emerge -p xorg-x11 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 (is blocking x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) [ebuild U ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1 [2.1.5-r1] [ebuild U ] x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1 [2.0_pre4-r1] [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 [4.3.0-r8] [ebuild N ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1 [ebuild N ] x11-terms/xterm-200 opengl-update blocks x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4, which is fine. The bug here is that I am not installing x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4, I am installing x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1. The 6.8.0-r4 ebuild isn't even in my portage. Trying a different version of xorg works fine, as shown below. >emerge -p =xorg-x11-6.8.0-r5 These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r5 [4.3.0-r8] [ebuild N ] sys-apps/utempter-0.5.5.5-r1 [ebuild N ] x11-terms/xterm-200 To me this indicates a bug in portage. I am running sys-apps/portage-2.0.51.19. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: Portage 2.0.51.19 (default-linux/x86/2004.0, gcc-3.4.3-20050110, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.91 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.91 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.10 Python: dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r1,dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Jun 7 2004, 17:12:30)] dev-lang/python: 2.2.3-r1, 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.6.8.1-r1 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.1/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://public.planetmirror.com/pub/gentoo http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.au.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X alsa apm avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo bzlib cdr crypt cscope cups curl emboss encode esd fam flac font-server foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gpm gtk gtk2 guile imagemagick imlib ipv6 jack java jpeg libg++ libwww mad mikmod motif mozilla mp3 mpeg ncurses nls oggvorbis opengl pam pdflib perl png python quicktime readline samba sdl slang spell ssl svga tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts xml xml2 xmms xv zlib" Unset: ASFLAGS, CBUILD, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS
emerge -C =xorg-x11-4.3.0* -- as your emerge output shows in the square brackets, it's installed: [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.2-r1 [4.3.0-r8] This is a result of the xfree to xorg-x11 move. Things should work fine once you uninstall it.
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 is the blocked package. 4.3.0-r8 is the installed version. This also does not explain why other versions of xorg-x11 were not blocked. I overrode the block with an 'emerge -O freetype opengl-update xorg-x11 utempter xterm' last night and it appears to have worked perfectly.
Sure it does, if you understand the "less than" symbol. [blocks B ] <x11-base/xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4 (is blocking x11-base/opengl-update-2.1.1-r1) If you have less than xorg-x11-6.8.0-r4, you can't upgrade opengl-update. If you can't upgrade opengl-update, you can't update xorg-x11.
dupe of 79606
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 79606 ***
