Re: [gentoo-user] libpng flip-flops after xorg-x11 upgrade

[Hans de Hartog <dehartog@rootsr.com>]

Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> libpng-1.2.12 has been rapidly stabilized due to a buffer overflow in 
> <libpng-1.2.12 [1]. A lot of packages in stable that depend on libpng are 
> incompatible with libpng-1.2.12. In most if not all cases a newer version 
> that is compatible exist in ~arch but it has not yet been stabilized. A 
> tracker bug [2] has been created to get those packages that are compatible 
> with libpng-1.2.12 rapidly stabilized but it probably will take some time.
> 
> Therefore the best solution seems to be to stick with libpng-1.2.12 and run 
> `emerge -vtpDu world` to see which packages are pulling in the old version of 
> libpng. In most cases there should be a newer version that needs the ~arch 
> keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords in order to be installed and thereby 
> stop pulling in the old version of libpng. If you need help post the output 
> of `emerge -vtpDu world` where it is trying to downgrade libpng...
> 
emerge -vtpDu world
These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[nomerge      ] net-fs/samba-3.0.22  USE="cups doc pam python readline 
xml -acl -async -automount -examples -kerberos -ldap -ldapsam -libclamav 
-mysql -oav -postgres -quotas -swat -syslog -winbind"
[nomerge      ]  dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1  USE="nls"
[nomerge      ]      net-print/cups-1.1.23-r7  USE="nls pam samba ssl 
-gnutls -slp"
[ebuild     UD]       media-libs/libpng-1.2.8-r1 [1.2.12] USE="-doc" 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 0 kB


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