[OPEN-ILS-DEV] Blocked pakages.

[Dan Scott]

On 25/09/2007, Noel Goodman <goldenchild_gt at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hey guys,
> The gentoo is a fresh install from the LiveCd 2007.0
>
> I've been following the wiki sequentially so far and I'm at the point where
> I have the install the perl modules.
> The following step is where the error occurs:
> _________________________________________________
> localhost ~ # emerge aspell-en
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> !!! Error: the =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* package conflicts with another
> package;
> !!!        the two packages cannot be installed on the same system together.
> !!!        Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers.
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
> section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Then I decided to see what the bloackage was:
>  _____________________________________________________
> localhost ~ # emerge --pretend aspell-en
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild     U ] app-dicts/aspell-en-6.0.0 [0.51.1]
> [ebuild     U ] app-text/aspell-0.60.5 [0.50.5-r4] USE="nls%* -examples%"
> [blocks B     ] =app-dicts/aspell-en-0.5* (is blocking
> app-text/aspell-0.60.5)
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Do I need to handle this problem now or can I skip it for the time being? If
> I can continue my installation, can I randomly install the remaining
> components or does it have to be done sequentially? Are spidermonkey and
> opensrf dependent on the perl modules ?
>
> Thanks.
> Noel
>

Ah, this is a standard problem to encounter when you're updating from
2007.0 to a recently synced repository. I think this would affect
anyone doing an emerge --deep --update world, actually.

Remove the aspell package, install the aspell-en package, and you'll be fine.

I'll add a note that you might run into this problem, and how to work
around it, in the wiki. Thanks!

-- 
Dan Scott
Laurentian University