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From: Peter Ruskin <aoyu93@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:34:08
Message-Id: 200307220034.02523.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc by "Brett I. Holcomb"
1 On Tuesday 22 Jul 2003 00:20, Brett I. Holcomb wrote:
2 > I did an emerge -u --deep world -p and am told that winex -cvs and
3 > glibc-2.3.2-r1 conflict with each other. I get
4 >
5 > B app-emulation/winex-cvs (from pkg sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1)
6 > R sys-libs.glibc-2.3.2-r1
7 >
8 > I remember some heavy discussion on glibc being upgraded (one says it
9 > breaks x but another says x works fine, etc.) but from what I
10 > remember it was decided to do it anyway.
11 >
12 > How do I fix this? It appears I'm blocked. I didn't see anything on
13 > bugzilla that would apply to this.
14 >
15 Hi Brett,
16
17 I was one making noise about winex not working with glibc-2.3.2. I
18 added this line to /etc/portage/package.mask:
19 >=sys-libs/glibc-2.3.2-r1
20 before upgrading. This kept glibc-2.3.2-r1 on my box so winex still
21 works for me.
22
23 Everything OK so far.
24
25 Peter
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Winex and glibc "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××.net>