Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ?

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin
Hemmann<volkerarmin@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;)

In my gentoo, portage upgraded to jpeg-7 and added jpeg-compat-6b at
the same time. Nothing had to be rebuilt and everything "seems" to be
working okay so far.