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

[Roy Wright <roy@wright.org>]

On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 05:10:18 meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>>> Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P
>>
>> jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this
>> failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output
>> I posted).
>
> Incorrect. Something else is pulling it in and you snipped that  
> output. Your
> initial post only says that emerge wants to include jpeg and it  
> won't emerge
> version 7 as it is unstable and your box is stable.
>
> It's from some package that specifically wants jpeg-7 as opposed to  
> just jpeg.
> Most likely netpbm which is hardcoded to DEPEND on jpeg-7.
>

In my case, it was netpbm.  Here's the steps I took to resolve the  
problem:

1) emerge -1 -av jpeg
2) Do NOT run "emerge @preserved-rebuild"
3) emerge -av jpeg-compat
4) revdep-rebuild

I hit a problem when trying the "emerge @preserved-rebuild" in that  
tightvnc had a jpeg-6b dependency, so pretty much had to use jpeg- 
compat.

HTH,
Roy