On Sat, 2 Aug 2003 01:05:23 +0200 Marius Mauch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 08/01/03 Collins Richey wrote: > > > There's got to be more to this story. I read more and more > > scenarios like this all the time. What leads to this crappy > > situation? What can others do to avoid it? It's bad enough for > > xfree (maybe three hours), but God forbid there should be a package > > blocked by OpenOffice(10+ hours) that needs this treatment! > > The reason for this is a fixed portage bug that allowed you to install > xft together with xfree 4.3.0-r2 (which contains xft), so that the xft > libs from xfree got overwritten, similar for other packages. To avoid > the recompilation use quickpkg (in /usr/lib/portage/bin) to build > binary packages of the blocking and the blocked packages before > unmerging anything (and put FEATURES=buildpkg in /etc/make.conf to > make this default for future emerge runs). Then instead of > re-compiling xfree you can use the binary with "emerge -K xfree". > Thanks. A really nice procedure. Is this online anywhere that I and others can RTFM? If not, it should be. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
