[gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Harry Putnam
Running emerge -v -p world -u shows: Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error: root # emerge -v -C net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 --- Couldn't find

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Robert Crawford
On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote: Running emerge -v -p world -u shows: Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) However any attempt to unmerge net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 gets this error:

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Mike Williams
On Saturday 27 August 2005 14:40, Harry Putnam wrote: I want to keep the vsftpd package so what needs to happen here? The version of vsftp you have installed is out of date, the new version wants to install ftpbase, but ftpbase blocks all versions of vsftp (and proftpd, and probably pure-ftpd)

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Holly Bostick
Robert Crawford schreef: On Saturday 27 August 2005 09:40 am, Harry Putnam wrote: Running emerge -v -p world -u shows: Calculating world dependencies ^H^H ...done! [blocks B ] net-ftp/vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 (is blocking net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00) However any attempt to unmerge

Re: [gentoo-user] Blocking package stops emerge now what?

2005-08-27 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 04:33:25PM +0200, Holly Bostick wrote: You likely should not have to. The idea of a BLOCK is that the new package either replaces the functionality of, or includes the functionality of, the currently installed program. True In this case, ftpbase installs the same