Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking
Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2008 12:25:43
Message-Id: 1218975883.32237.17.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] e2fsprogs and blocking by Chris Walters
1 On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 08:07 -0400, Chris Walters wrote:
2 > The best way to resolve this, I've found is to put the following into
3 > your
4 > /etc/portage/package.mask file.
5 >
6 > =sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.0
7 > =sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.0
8 >
9 > I masked them because some things depend on com_err, and that is part
10 > of
11 > e2fsprogs-libs in the 1.41.0 version. Until the upstreams of these
12 > packages
13 > update their packages, you can't use the new version, unless you're
14 > willing to
15 > unmerge all of the affected packages.
16
17 Which is what you should do, as has been mentioned previously in this
18 thread.