From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgPAX-0004pt-Qq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:32:34 +0000 Received: by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix, from userid 207) id 09397E08BF; Thu, 27 Aug 2009 02:06:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F4F6E067D; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f215.google.com (mail-ew0-f215.google.com [209.85.219.215]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 671ABE067D for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy11 with SMTP id 11so303718ewy.11 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:59 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=lLwUd5bgoSm8TA7BnzBoqATgGY2ofqp87OP1CSutJxE=; b=ttrDL2cq16kMQXFLDhNm48lYnIFADxJkO+3rE6CUSBt9YmaT6+rsnk3dp9BfkdpNXe vPuoKtZ0K6n5vWtjp/QssZIe8WTW170mxe/TjjKLoaXh+jWEY7GMPFhWTyX8m6PAnspi 7SgLy87Mvb6XQ4nedAchSFqrNdgrJ2tqP4ld0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=oe13czS/HD5UdJ6k2RmFXsfMVC4YQLgakEwzLnK1CE+8tgA0yKUi7vVwoItxhblAkX cd4FyWRDUlPkw05SS15Q8YQhLcSdk4VXmTZackgbo/n5W53ji9Uj6bRol2aqqHXGdL/W 4xoCQKnf1cattEmFxEs21zWsgH/m7GgYXoJJU= Received: by 10.216.11.200 with SMTP id 50mr1624464wex.183.1251301859683; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from energy.localnet (energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.197.94]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm5140243gvf.9.2009.08.26.08.50.58 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:50:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:50:57 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.30.5r4; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20090826023245.GA5818@solfire> <200908260943.02995.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200908260943.02995.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908261750.57379.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b024ea75-848f-4aaf-9150-1d12658ccea9 X-Archives-Hash: 30f026e981b5cac5098bac28aaeaffc6 On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: > > > > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been > > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to > > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) > > > > > > > > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause > > > it is masked. > > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many > > > othe rprograms and it is masked. > > > > Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat > > alongside it so packages won't break. > > I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause > breakage. > > Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have > to be rebuilt or worse - recoded. > Surely, surely not? /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0 hilarity insued. Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. It was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because until revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that is... a lot) didn't work ;)