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On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin |
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Hemmann<volkerarmin@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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>> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote: |
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>> > > Hi, |
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>> > > |
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>> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: |
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>> > > |
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>> > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been |
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>> > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to |
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>> > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) |
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>> > > |
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>> > > |
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>> > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause |
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>> > > it is masked. |
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>> > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many |
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>> > > othe rprograms and it is masked. |
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>> > |
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>> > Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat |
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>> > alongside it so packages won't break. |
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>> |
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>> I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause |
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>> breakage. |
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>> |
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>> Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have |
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>> to be rebuilt or worse - recoded. |
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>> Surely, surely not? |
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> |
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> /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0 |
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> |
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> hilarity insued. |
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> |
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> Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. It |
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> was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because until |
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> revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that |
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> is... a lot) didn't work ;) |
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In my gentoo, portage upgraded to jpeg-7 and added jpeg-compat-6b at |
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the same time. Nothing had to be rebuilt and everything "seems" to be |
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working okay so far. |
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