On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 10:50 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann<[email protected]> wrote: > On Mittwoch 26 August 2009, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 26 August 2009 04:37:07 Nikos Chantziaras wrote: >> > On 08/26/2009 05:32 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> > > Hi, >> > > >> > > while trying to update my gentoo I got this: >> > > >> > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy ">=media-libs/jpeg-7" have been >> > > masked. !!! One of the following masked packages is required to >> > > complete your request: - media-libs/jpeg-7 (masked by: ~x86 keyword) >> > > >> > > >> > > I read this as jpeg-7 needs jpeg-7 to update itsself and cannot cause >> > > it is masked. >> > > I dont like to update to jpeg-7 since this package is used in so many >> > > othe rprograms and it is masked. >> > >> > Don't mask it. Install it, but also install media-libs/jpeg-compat >> > alongside it so packages won't break. >> >> I'm having a hard time imagining how a package like jpeg could cause >> breakage. >> >> Such breakage would cause half the apps on any typical workstation to have >> to be rebuilt or worse - recoded. >> Surely, surely not? > > /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.62 changed to /usr/lib64/libjpeg.so.7.0.0 > > hilarity insued. > > Seriously all packages on my system that broke installed fine with jpeg-7. It > was just a long revdep run. But no breakage. Well, some breakage because until > revdep rebuilt all the packages affected, everything using jpegs (and that > is... a lot) didn't work ;)
In my gentoo, portage upgraded to jpeg-7 and added jpeg-compat-6b at the same time. Nothing had to be rebuilt and everything "seems" to be working okay so far.
