On Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:46:04 -0500, Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:

> On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 16:37 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:
> > Matt Connell (Gmail) wrote:  
> > > On Thu, 2021-04-22 at 15:09 -0400, Alan Grimes wrote:  
> > > > - sys-libs/glibc-2.32-r7::gentoo (masked by: package.mask)  
> > > This is the current stable version of glibc, which would satisfy the
> > > ebuild.  You have it masked manually, it would seem.
> > > 
> > > Did you leave yourself a comment as to why it was masked?  
> > 
> > Well, I got 2.33 installed on me and the system does not allow that
> > package to downgarde, for good reason... I masked the old version to
> > stop it from bitching at me that it can't downgrade that package.  
> 
> I don't for sure whether or not glibc is supposed to be able to be
> downgraded or not.  If not, then it sounds like using the ~arch version
> of it is biting you in the backside.  A cautionary tale about not using
> the ~arch keyword for mission-critical packages unless the situation is
> dire.

The chromium-90.* ebuilds apply a patch to work with glibc-2.3.3, you
might try that on a 91 ebuild. Read bug #769989 first.


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