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Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package isn't really there.
From:       Ernie Schroder <schroder () ntplx ! net>
Date:       2007-08-23 10:51:46
Message-ID: 200708230651.46831.schroder () ntplx ! net
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On Thursday 23 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Abraham Marín Pérez to 
write:
> Ernie Schroder escribió:
> > On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled Ernie Schroder to 
write:
> >> On Wednesday 22 August 2007, a tiny voice compelled James Ausmus to 
write:
> >>> emerge -ptv kino
> >>
> >> nothing that helps me here that I see
> >> $ emerge -ptv kino
> >>
> >> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
> >>
> >> Calculating dependencies... done!
> >> [ebuild  N    ] media-video/kino-1.0.0  USE="alsa dvdr quicktime
> >> vorbis -gpac -sox" 5,301 kB
> >> [ebuild  N    ]  media-sound/rawrec-0.9.98  60 kB
> >> [ebuild  N    ]  media-video/dvdauthor-0.6.11  282 kB
> >> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libiec61883-1.1.0  USE="-examples" 359 kB
> >> [ebuild  N    ]  media-libs/libdv-1.0.0-r2  USE="sdl xv -debug" 571 kB
> >> [ebuild  N    ]  media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070616-r1  USE="X encode
> >> mmx ogg oss sdl truetype vorbis zlib -a52 -aac
> >> (-altivec) -amr -debug -doc -ieee1394 -imlib -network -test -theora
> >> -threads -v4l -x264 -xvid" 0 kB
> >> [blocks B     ] >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525 (is blocking
> >> media-video/kino-1.0.0)
> >>
> >> Total: 6 packages (6 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 6,571 kB
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> Regards, Ernie
> >
> > So exactly how do I convince portage that the blocking ffmpeg is NOT
> > installed
>
> Taking a look at the ebuild I saw this in the DEPEND list:
>     >=media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20061016
>
>     !>media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525
>
> Portage seems to look for a version later than 0.4.9_p20061016 in order
> to satisfy the first condition and finds 0.4.9_p20070616-r1; however,
> then it sees version must not be older than 0.4.9_p20070525 and it
>
> fails... simply add the following line to /etc/portage/packages.mask:
>  >media-video/ffmpeg-0.4.9_p20070525

Very nice work there Abraham!
>
> and you'll be able to install kino-1.0.0 with no problem.
>
> What I wonder now is, shouldn't Portage itself have detected this issue
> and choose a version between 0.4.9_p20061016 and 0.4.9_p20070525? Would
> this be a Portage bug?
maybe portage is dyslexic, like me and recognised  0.4.9_p20061016 as 
0.4.9_p20070616.  One would think it's either a bug or a syntax problem in 
the ebuild.
Thanks for your detective work!
>
> Abraham



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Regards, Ernie
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