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From: "Ђорђе Тодоровић" <postmanmiler@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2011 17:34:49
Message-Id: 20110614173220.GA4700@Allegro
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] to USE loop-aes or not to USE loop-aes, that is the confusion by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On Tue, 14 Jun 2011, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2
3 >Hi,
4 >
5 >When the story begins I had installed util-linux-2.18-r1.
6 >Then emerge told me, that it wants to downgrade to util-linux-2.12,
7 >because I hade set USE=loop-aes for that.
8 >Util-linux-2.19.something was on the road too...
9 >After some inverstigation I thought USE=crypt had replced
10 >USE=loop-aes, I removed USE=loop-aes and emerged util-linux.
11 >I upgraded loop-aes to 3.6c
12 >Emerge decided to install util-linux-2.19.something.
13 >
14 >Now, I got this:
15 >emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.12r[crypt,loop-aes]".
16 >!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
17 >- sys-apps/util-linux-2.18-r1 (Change USE: +loop-aes)
18 >(dependency required by "sys-fs/loop-aes-3.6c" [installed])
19 >(dependency required by "@selected" [set])
20 >(dependency required by "@world" [argument])
21 >
22 >I totally confused here.
23 >
24 >What is the difference of
25 >USE=loop-aes
26 >and
27 >USE=crypt?
28 >
29 >Why are the versions oscillate that way?
30 >
31 >HELP ! :)
32 >
33 >Thank you very much for any hint in advance!:)
34 >
35 >Best regards
36 >mcc
37 >
38 See this bug:
39 https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=354451
40
41 Also, this guy wrote some blog posts regarding the issue:
42 http://dev.c1pher.net/index.php/2011/06/loop-aes-should-it-be-treecleaned/
43 http://dev.c1pher.net/index.php/2011/06/loop-aes-update/
44
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