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From: Steven Susbauer <stupendoussteve@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync?
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:18:08
Message-Id: BAY122-F35E48BE52231C013D638B8BA270@phx.gbl
1 Eray Aslan wrote:
2 >On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 03:09:00PM -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
3 >>I have unmerged all the files involved in the blockage
4 >>
5 >> allan Mail # emerge --ask --unmerge e2fsprogs e2fsprogs-libs ss
6 >>com_err
7 >>
8 >> >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
9 >>
10 >> --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs' to unmerge.
11 >>
12 >> --- Couldn't find 'e2fsprogs-libs' to unmerge.
13 >>
14 >> --- Couldn't find 'ss' to unmerge.
15 >>
16 >> --- Couldn't find 'com_err' to unmerge.
17 >>
18 >> >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge
19 >>
20 >>But when I do an emerge world I still get the blockage
21 >>(I previously tried emerge -1 e2fsprogs, which brought in
22 >>e2fsprogs-libs, but still gave the blockage shown below).
23 >
24 >Careful with the unmerges. Check the following for the gory details and
25 >possible work arounds:
26 >
27 >http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=234907
28 >http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=244511
29 >
30 >Such a mess.
31 >
32 Yes it is. I was extremely tempted to post a thread about this issue
33 last night that explained the issue and the fix, as there weren't any
34 posts about it yet but they were sure to come as people broke wget. It
35 slipped my mind though. :-\

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Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Circular blocks after last night's sync? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>