At Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:27:24 +0100 Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Robert Bridge schrieb am 28.10.2008 18:21: >> On Tue, 28 Oct 2008 13:08:32 -0400 >> "James Homuth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> During an update attempt this afternoon, these little surprises were >>> waiting for me. I took a look at the archives, and naturally, google, >>> but all I found were lots of the same error, and no information on >>> it/what's broken. Anyone else having this particular problem? The >>> block errors are below. >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/ss (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/com_err (is blocking >>> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.2) >>> >>> [blocks B ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs (is blocking >>> sys-libs/ss-1.40.9, >>> sys-libs/com_err-1.40.9) >>> >>> This was during an emerge --update world. >>> >>> >> >> emerge -C e2fsprogs, ss, com_err && emerge -1 e2fsprogs >> >> e2fsprogs is being restructured, which is causing the problem. > > If you go the route of uninstalling things first, make sure that you > have the sources prepared as wget might not work for some use flag > combinations when you remove e2fsprogs, ss, com_err in advance. I have obtained the sources to e2fsprogs, e2fsprogs-libs, ss, com_error via emerge --fetchonly. Am I correct in believing that emerge --unmerge will NOT remove the sources. thanks, allan