Re: [gentoo-user] How can I solve "emerge @preserved-rebuild" loop?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 December 2009 14:08:47 Dale wrote:
>   
>>>> I have the same problem, but the "emerge -av1 util-linux" has blocking
>>>> issues with sys-fs/e2fsprogs.  Whenever I remove sys-fs stuff I usually
>>>> regret it.
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> You must remove the e2fsprogs* packages, emerge util-linux and re-emerge 
>>> e2fsprogs*
>>>
>>> This is safe as long as you don't log out, reboot, kill bash or do other
>>> weird  and wonderful things that require a working e2fsprogs.
>>>  
>>> Think of it this way:
>>>
>>> delete your kernel image in /boot, do all kinds of stuff and put back a 
>>> different kernel image named the same as the original. Nothing will go
>>> wrong  unless you reboot|restart. Same with e2fprogs.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Is this the one where you need to fetch the files first, then un-emerge 
>> and emerge?  I recall one being that way but not sure if it is this one.
>>     
>
> No, that was a while ago. This is simply a conflict involving e2fsprogs-libs
>
> Doesn't remove wget
>   

Ah, that was it.  I was wondering why a file system package would 
interfere with portage downloading.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)