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From: Robert Crawford <flacycads@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 14:19:50
Message-Id: 200508271010.35220.flacycads@cox.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what? by Harry Putnam
1 On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Running emerge -v -p world -u shows:
3 >
4 > Calculating world dependencies ....^H^H ...done!
5 > [blocks B ] <net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking
6 > net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00)
7 >
8 > However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error:
9 > root # emerge -v -C net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00
10 >
11 > --- Couldn't find net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 to unmerge.
12 >
13 > >>> unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
14 >
15 > I want to keep the vsftpd package so what needs to happen here?
16
17 You need to:
18
19 emerge -C net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1
20
21 (or any earlier vsftpd version found on your system) temporarily, and after
22 you emerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 and world, you can emerge
23 net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 again.
24
25 Robert Crawford
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Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what? Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>