From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgP4B-0002WJ-Je for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:25:59 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 25277E0887; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtprelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0220.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.220]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CC9AE0887 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from filter.hostedemail.com (ff-bigip1 [10.5.19.254]) by smtprelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 9A1D0F30CBF for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Session-Marker: 726F79407772696768742E6F7267 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 1969 Received: from royw-macbook.wright.local (Port22.TB3.industryinet.com [66.63.237.22]) (Authenticated sender: roy@wright.org) by omf08.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:00:36 +0000 (UTC) Message-Id: <75F7AE35-5963-47FD-879E-DB85EB3B0A1D@wright.org> From: Roy Wright To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200908260946.26624.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Masked package needs itsself ? Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:00:35 -0500 References: <20090826023245.GA5818@solfire> <20090826031018.GC5818@solfire> <200908260946.26624.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Archives-Salt: a2e1d9f0-8a2c-484b-9af5-3c715b1f2ad8 X-Archives-Hash: d574f8e3de1eadd80e8a3a078dfb98c1 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