Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc

[Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>]

On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 00:20, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
> I did an emerge -u --deep world -p and am told that winex -cvs and
> glibc-2.3.2-r1 conflict with each other.    I get
>
> B app-emulation/winex-cvs (from pkg sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1)
> R sys-libs.glibc-2.3.2-r1
>
> I remember some heavy discussion on glibc being upgraded (one says it
> breaks x but another says x works fine, etc.) but from what I
> remember it was decided to do it anyway.
>
> How do I fix this?  It appears I'm blocked.  I didn't see anything on
> bugzilla that would apply to this.
>
Hi Brett,

I was one making noise about winex not working with glibc-2.3.2.  I 
added this line to /etc/portage/package.mask:
	>=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1
before upgrading.  This kept glibc-2.3.2-r1 on my box so winex still 
works for me.

Everything OK so far.

Peter
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