Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?

["Steven Susbauer" <stupendoussteve@hotmail.com>]

Eray Aslan wrote:
>On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>>I have unmerged all the files involved in the blockage
>>
>>     allan Mail # emerge --ask --unmerge e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs ss 
>>com_err
>>
>>     >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
>>
>>     --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs' to unmerge.
>>
>>     --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs-libs' to unmerge.
>>
>>     --- Couldn't find 'ss' to unmerge.
>>
>>     --- Couldn't find 'com_err' to unmerge.
>>
>>     >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge
>>
>>But when I do an emerge world I still get the blockage
>>(I previously tried emerge -1 e2fsprogs, which brought in
>>e2fsprogs-libs, but still gave the blockage shown below).
>
>Careful with the unmerges.  Check the following for the gory details and
>possible work arounds:
>
>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907
>http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244511
>
>Such a mess.
>
Yes it is. I was extremely tempted to post a thread about this issue
last night that explained the issue and the fix, as there weren't any
posts about it yet but they were sure to come as people broke wget. It
slipped my mind though. :-\