On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 05:49:34PM +1300, Penguin Lover Jamie squawked:
> I have since tried to unmerge openssh in the hope that this will allow
> me to at least get my system up to date but I get the following issue:
>
> Gir ~ # emerge --unmerge openssh
>
>
> !!! 'net-misc/openssh' is part of your system profile.
> !!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
>
> >>> Waiting 10 seconds before starting...
> >>> (Control-C to abort)...
> Press Ctrl-C to Stop in: 10 9
>
> I have removed sshd from all run levels, what else could be the issue here?
>
It means, openssh is part of 'system', a list of packages that are
deemed essential for the operation of your box by the gentoo-devs.
And usually it is a bad idea to unmerge anything in it, since it could
lead to serious breakage.
Also, I am under the impression (correct me if I am wrong) that world
is a superset of system? So even if you do unmerge openssh, the fact
that it is in system will bring it back in when you issue 'emerge -uD
world'
If you just don't want to deal with openssh right now, you can issue:
emerge --update --deep world; emerge --resume --skipfirst;
If everything else compiles fine, the first 'emerge' will stop when it
hits openssh which refuses to compile, and the second one will tell it
to continue after skipping openssh.
HTH
W
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