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From: Robert Crawford <flacycads@cox.net>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user]  Blocking package stops emerge now what?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 10:10:35 -0400
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On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ....^H^H ...done!
> [blocks B     ] <net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking
> net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00)
>
> However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error:
> root # emerge -v -C net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00
>
> --- Couldn't find net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 to unmerge.
>
> >>> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
>
> I want to keep the vsftpd package so what needs to happen here?

You need to:

emerge -C  net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1

(or any earlier vsftpd version found on your system) temporarily,  and after 
you emerge  net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 and world, you can emerge 
net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1  again.

Robert Crawford   
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