Question regarding updates and problems with ati/xorg

[johanPO]

I am new to Gentoo/Sabayon. I downloaded and installed 3.4 Loop 2.

I am now in the process of trying to get the latest updates to the system. I am having some issues

after emerge --sync and layman -S it try with

emerge -upDN --world

and get the following

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

Calculating world dependencies /
!!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all
!!! masked or don't exist:
net-firewall/firestarter net-www/gentoo-webroot-default

... done!
[ebuild U ] dev-db/sqlite-3.3.17 [3.3.12] USE="-soundex%"
then a large number of packages followed by

[blocks B ] x11-drivers/ati-drivers (is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.3.0. 0-r1)


To this I have two questions
1. I have both firestarter and the gentoo-webroot installed and none of them are in the package.mask. Is this something that I need to do something about?

2 More important. How do I solve the second issue, that the ati driver and xorg-server are blocking each other?

[j7uy5]

I don't have an ATI card so this is a bit of a guess, but I would guess that the ati-driver package is the open source driver and you are probably using the proprietary driver. If so, you could remove the ati-driver and it would not hurt anything. If that is the only blocker, you should be all set.

You might want to search in the forums to see what people have to say about updating world. In many cases there is no particular reason to do so. Just update the packages when you need to to fix a problem, or if there is a security fix.

[nemesis]

emerge --sync again. I had the same problem. Just had to give the packages time to catch up to each other.

[Dark_MaGe]

give a "layman -s sabayon" I've fixed it yesterday

[johanPO]

Thanks! My CPU is working hard compiling now

[voxiac]

give a "layman -s sabayon" I've fixed it yesterday

It looks like Gentoo fixed it also :
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/ge ... iew=markup

[Dark_MaGe]

not for amd64 I synced yesterday and commit the fix on our overlay

[voxiac]

not for amd64 I synced yesterday and commit the fix on our overlay

Yup they've also changed it yesterday... Ok, the bug was fixed before your commit:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_activity.cgi?id=180611
But AFAIK there's a lag between cvs commit and general availability on public servers...