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From: Hans de Hartog <dehartog@××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libpng flip-flops after xorg-x11 upgrade
Date: Sun, 02 Jul 2006 12:55:47
Message-Id: 44A7BFCC.5080206@rootsr.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] libpng flip-flops after xorg-x11 upgrade by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
2 > libpng-1.2.12 has been rapidly stabilized due to a buffer overflow in
3 > <libpng-1.2.12 [1]. A lot of packages in stable that depend on libpng are
4 > incompatible with libpng-1.2.12. In most if not all cases a newer version
5 > that is compatible exist in ~arch but it has not yet been stabilized. A
6 > tracker bug [2] has been created to get those packages that are compatible
7 > with libpng-1.2.12 rapidly stabilized but it probably will take some time.
8 >
9 > Therefore the best solution seems to be to stick with libpng-1.2.12 and run
10 > `emerge -vtpDu world` to see which packages are pulling in the old version of
11 > libpng. In most cases there should be a newer version that needs the ~arch
12 > keyword in /etc/portage/package.keywords in order to be installed and thereby
13 > stop pulling in the old version of libpng. If you need help post the output
14 > of `emerge -vtpDu world` where it is trying to downgrade libpng...
15 >
16 emerge -vtpDu world
17 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
18
19 Calculating world dependencies... done!
20 [nomerge ] net-fs/samba-3.0.22 USE="cups doc pam python readline
21 xml -acl -async -automount -examples -kerberos -ldap -ldapsam -libclamav
22 -mysql -oav -postgres -quotas -swat -syslog -winbind"
23 [nomerge ] dev-libs/popt-1.7-r1 USE="nls"
24 [nomerge ] net-print/cups-1.1.23-r7 USE="nls pam samba ssl
25 -gnutls -slp"
26 [ebuild UD] media-libs/libpng-1.2.8-r1 [1.2.12] USE="-doc" 0 kB
27
28 Total size of downloads: 0 kB
29
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Re: [gentoo-user] libpng flip-flops after xorg-x11 upgrade "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>