I'm trying to install k3b. One of its dependancies is transcode. The emerge stopped at transcode with specific errors, When checking bugzilla I see this is a known problem.
I'm not sure how to proceed from here. For example: If I have emerge install a version that doesn't appear in the bug reports (several versions back) how would that effect the install of k3b. Wouldn't it still want to install the problem version? Can I do something in /etc/portage/package.provided that will allow the old build to stand? I'm familiar with how it works on backages that are a version or two ahead. But somewhere, when I read up on package.provided it said this would work as long as the package listed there was a newer version. I currently have: cat /etc/portage/package.provided rsnapshot-1.2.2 bacula-1.48.5 In both cases those are newer than anything in portage (even masked). I'd rather not build transcode by hand because the emerge of k3b showed a complicated string of deps and it seems like I could get in a pretty good mess going outside of portage for some pieces of it. Can someone outline a proceedure for a case like this? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
