pkgconf and pkgconfig conflict in emerge -u

[pascalbrax]

I'm not really sure how to proceed about this one, don't want to unmerge and emerge again something critical for my system...

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] app-arch/lzip-1.19 [1.19_pre1]
[ebuild  N     ] virtual/pkgconfig-0-r1  ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)"
[ebuild     UD ] sys-apps/keyutils-1.5.9-r4 [1.5.10]
[ebuild     UD ] dev-python/pyrsistent-0.12.0 [0.12.1]
[ebuild     U  ] app-crypt/acme-0.18.1 [0.18.0]
[ebuild     U  ] app-crypt/certbot-0.18.1 [0.18.0]
[ebuild     U  ] dev-libs/libxml2-2.9.4-r2 [2.9.4-r1] PYTHON_TARGETS="-python3_6%"
[ebuild     UD ] x11-misc/util-macros-1.19.0 [1.19.1]
[ebuild  N     ] dev-util/pkgconfig-0.29.2  USE="-build -hardened" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)"
[ebuild     UD ] media-tv/plex-media-server-1.3.4-r1 [1.8.4]
[ebuild     U  ] mail-client/mutt-1.9.0 [1.8.3] USE="(-prefix)"
[ebuild     U  ] app-editors/vim-core-8.0.1092 [8.0.1071]
[ebuild     U  ] app-editors/vim-8.0.1092 [8.0.1071]
[ebuild     UD ] dev-python/testtools-2.2.0 [2.3.0]
[blocks B      ] dev-util/pkgconfig ("dev-util/pkgconfig" is blocking dev-util/pkgconf-1.2.2)
[blocks B      ] dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config] ("dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config]" is blocking dev-util/pkgconfig-0.29.2)

 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
 * installed at the same time on the same system.

  (dev-util/pkgconfig-0.29.2:0/0::dev-kit, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
    dev-util/pkgconfig required by (media-video/luvcview-0.2.6:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.23 required by (x11-apps/mkfontdir-1.0.7:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.23 required by (media-fonts/encodings-1.0.4:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.23 required by (media-fonts/font-misc-misc-1.1.2:0/0::gentoo, installed)

  (dev-util/pkgconf-1.2.2:0/0::core-kit, installed) pulled in by
    dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?] (dev-util/pkgconf[pkg-config,abi_x86_32(-),abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (virtual/pkgconfig-0-r1:0/0::core-kit, ebuild scheduled for merge)


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

BTW after the ego/epro switch, lots of packages are marked to "downgrade" in my portage tree.

[Oleg Vinichenko]

downgrades are expected.

put package.mask for dev-util/pkgconfig for now. i'll look for this issue in details.

[dougbmorris]

I have the same problem. Did not update my world since X11 performance was degraded and switched to LXDE, which makes the refresh latency mostly bearable. So I have a lot of update distance to cover. I can 'ego sync' with no problem. I thought I would update portage first after seeing it scheduled for update when I tried to get latest kernel sources. I did lots of unmerging try to resolve block, and failed. Tried these two lines in package.mask: =dev-util/pkgconfig-0.29.2 and =dev-util/pkgconf-1.2.2

I have attached a file which shows blockers dev-util/pkgconf and dev-util/pkgconfig are not installed because I unmerged them, and I uninstall many applications as a guess. No luck.

test.txt

I am updating. I feel silly but all I did was change from: emerge -uNDa --with-bdeps=y portage

...to...: emerge -uNDa portage

And if that didn't work, I was gonna drop the -D and try that.

Tip: Show the command that was used to generate the output. The two are closely related.

Edited February 1, 2018 by dougbmorris
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