Re: [gentoo-user] blockage

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 7:31 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It looks to me like sysvinit-2.88-r7 was stabilized and the maintainer
>> of apcupsd didn't notice. From the ebuild for apcupsd-3.14.8-r2:
>>
>> DEPEND="
>>         ||      ( >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23[tty-helpers]
>>                   <=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4
>>                   sys-freebsd/freebsd-ubin
>>                 )
>>
>> What I suggest is copy that ebuild to your local overlay and update the
>> DEPEND to <=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r7 and redigest
>>
>> If that gives a correct update path for world, then file a bug against
>> apcupsd.
>
> Some commands were moved from sysvinit to util-linux, and these
> commands are required by apcupsd and are included in util-linux if
> it's compiled with the "tty-helpers" use flag.

Is this somehow reflected in the dependencies?  And how could I deal
with the multiple versions of util-linux that seem to be required?

Perhaps I should forcefully update util-linux and use tty-helpers so
that apcupsd still works in case I reboot.  But what other problems
might that cause?


What am I supposed to think?  Should we not update unless no problems
are listed and just wait in case there are some, potentially having to
wait indefinitely?  How about security updates then?


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