Gentoo Archives: gentoo-alt

From: Jeremy Olexa <darkside@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Upgrade your Portage
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:29:46
Message-Id: 5256d6372625b9ad78547d057a8d9da8@webmail.jolexa.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Upgrade your Portage by Fabian Groffen
1 On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 15:13:15 +0200, Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
2 wrote:
3 > A word of warning to all Prefix users:
4 >
5 > Tomorrow I will commit a long overdue version bump of openssl
6 > (1.0.0a).
7 > Recent Portage versions had non-functional preserve-libs
8 > functionality,
9 > which causes this upgrade of openssl to severely BREAK YOUR SYSTEM.
10 > (Portage won't work any more)
11 >
12 > Make sure you upgrade Portage to version 2.2.01.16706 or above before
13 > you upgrade your openssl, or you'll have to hack some files to get
14 > yourself going again (like I had to when I found out).
15
16 Can you put a prefix-only depend in openssl for >=portage-2.2.01.16706?
17 -Jeremy