Edit /etc/make.profile/packages, find db, and replace that line with

*sys-libs/db-4

Works for me... but after every sync, you have to do this again... :(

On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Martin Lesser wrote:

> Paul de Vrieze <pauldv@g.o> writes:
> 
> > db-4.0 and db-4.1 are NOT compatible. Applications linked against 4.0 will not 
> > work with 4.1, so they need to be slotted differently.
> 
> Ok. We upgraded db-3.X several months ago directly to 4.1.X and changed
> the slot in 4.1.X to SLOT="4" cause the only app which needed db-4.X was
> openldap-2.1.X
> 
> At the moment I don't want to downgrade my slapd-dbs to 4.0.
> 
> > db-4.1 is masked in the profiles
> 
> No:
> # grep sys-libs/db /usr/portage/profiles/package.mask
> =sys-libs/db-3.3.11
> 
> > See above. Putting =sys-libs/db-4.1.* in /etc/portage/package.unmask should 
> > work
> 
> Unfortunatelly not:
> 
> # cat /etc/portage/package.unmask
> =sys-libs/db-4.1.*
> 
> # emerge -Up world
> >>> --upgradeonly implies --update... adding --update to options.
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating world dependencies /
> !!! all ebuilds that could satisfy "sys-libs/db" have been masked.
> 
> At the moment this implies that I can't emerge -U world where at least
> 68 (!) packages should be updated :-(
> 
> Martin
> 
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