I was having issues with my regular update schedule on my Gentoo server where I kept getting the following message:
('ebuild', '/', 'dev-db/sqlite-3.6.22-r2', 'merge') conflicts with
=dev-db/sqlite-3.6.22[extensions] required by ('installed', '/', 'dev-perl/DBD-SQLite-1.29-r2', 'nomerge')
Since I use SQLite fairly regularly and I like to keep it up to date I figured I would focus on getting that updated, then worry about the Perl SQLite. (Had I known that spamassassin relies on the Perl SQLite I may have been a little more hesitant, but it all worked out ok anyway.)
Here is how I managed to update both SQLite and the Perl SQLite. I first unmerged dev-perl/DBD-SQLite with:
emerge --unmerge dev-perl/DBD-SQLite
I then updated SQLite with:
emerge -u sqlite
Which changed the USE settings to “-extensions” which meant that when I tried to emerge DBD-SQLite it failed due to the missing USE requirements. So I took a stab at it and did:
USE="extensions" emerge sqlite
Which built cleanly without any problems, and after which a quick
emerge dev-perl/DBD-SQLite worked great.
So, in a quick and easy cut and paste format the work-around is:
emerge --unmerge DBD-SQLite
emerge -u sqlite
USE="extensions" emerge sqlite
emerge DBD-SQLite
Why the work-around is required I don’t know at the moment as I don’t have the time to dig through the ebuild files and figure out where the issue is, although I am sure if I had waited a bit updated ebuild files will come down the pipeline to correct the issue. (Patience is a virtue, but I have never been all that virtuous.)