On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote:

> I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to
> sys-libs/pam-1.4.0.
> The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in
> sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my
> system, and leaves me with an installed sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 which is
> broken and does not allow any new login.
> The end result is that sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 was successfully merged but
> sys-auth/pambase will not be merged, due to a build failure in passwdqc.
> Disabling the USE flag passwdqc for pambase allows an update to pambase
> too, and logins work again.
> This is a warning to anyone out there who updates daily and runs an
> ~amd64.

Thanks for the heads up. To play safe, I emerge passwdqc before emerging
@world. It actually emerge without complaint on the three systems I
tried. I also made sure I could SSH in after updating PAM before
terminating the existing session.


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Neil Bothwick

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