On Wed, 17 Jun 2020 07:34:41 +0200, Andreas Fink wrote: > I've noticed a problem with the current PAM update to > sys-libs/pam-1.4.0. > The update adds passwdqc USE to sys-auth/pambase, which pulls in > sys-auth/passwdqc. However sys-auth/passwdqc fails to build on my > system, and leaves me with an installed sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 which is > broken and does not allow any new login. > The end result is that sys-libs/pam-1.4.0 was successfully merged but > sys-auth/pambase will not be merged, due to a build failure in passwdqc. > Disabling the USE flag passwdqc for pambase allows an update to pambase > too, and logins work again. > This is a warning to anyone out there who updates daily and runs an > ~amd64.
Thanks for the heads up. To play safe, I emerge passwdqc before emerging @world. It actually emerge without complaint on the three systems I tried. I also made sure I could SSH in after updating PAM before terminating the existing session. -- Neil Bothwick IBM: Itty Bitty Mentality
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