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AprilGrimoire
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 Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 2:48 pm Post subject: Confusion with portage's upgrading strategy |
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Hi, any help greatly appreciated.
I'm trying to do an update, but got a slot conflict. It seems that xorg-drivers-21.1 requires a newer version of xorg-server, but tigervnc requires an older version. I'm confused why portage doesn't just stick to the older version of xorg-drivers? How should I resolve this problem?
Here's the terminal output: https://pastebin.com/1yMcXKSr |
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alamahant
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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The way to resolve this is by
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USE="-server" emerge -1av tigervnc
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Plz Make it permanent via package.use.
At any rate the USE="server" is by default turned off.
Did you manually enable it?
The reason this is happening is because it seems you are using ~amd64 but tigervnc is only available in amd64 with the unstable versions masked because of bugs.
OR you might unmask the masked versions which you shouldn't really.
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AprilGrimoire
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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| alamahant wrote: | The way to resolve this is by
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USE="-server" emerge -1av tigervnc
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Plz Make it permanent via package.use.
At any rate the USE="server" is by default turned off.
Did you manually enable it?
The reason this is happening is because it seems you are using ~amd64 but tigervnc is only available in amd64 with the unstable versions masked because of bugs.
OR you might unmask the masked versions which you shouldn't really. |
Thanks for helping!
I do want the server feature. Do you know why portage insists to install the newer version of xorg-drivers? |
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alamahant
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:09 pm Post subject: |
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Do you know why portage insists to install the newer version of xorg-drivers?
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This is the meaning of an update.
You are running unstable no?
If you werent you wouldnt have this problem.
So for the time being your best course would be to wait the for an unstable version of tigervnc to be unmasked and USE="-server" in the meantime.
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Hu
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| Posted: Sun Jan 16, 2022 4:54 pm Post subject: |
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The newest version of xorg-drivers satisfies all criteria other than the VNC version constraint, so Portage tries to pick it. Then it notices the VNC constraint, and you get a conflict.
You wrote that you want USE=server. Do you also need USE=xorgmodule? VNC only constrains xorg-server if both those flags are set: | Code: | 22 CDEPEND="
32 server? (
42 xorgmodule? ( =x11-base/xorg-server-${XSERVER_VERSION%.*}* )
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Disabling either flag would eliminate the conflict. |
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sam_
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| Posted: Mon Jan 17, 2022 5:15 am Post subject: |
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| Unmasking new TigerVNC would help too, but it may have compatibility issues for some setups. |
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