On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 05:32:26PM +0200, Arve Barsnes wrote > On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 at 15:32, Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> wrote: > > > I know that the news item gives dire warnings about not unmerging > > glibc. Can I safely unmerge virtual/libcrypt and replace it? > > > > > Sure, but you would probably get the same errors. I'm suspecting you have > some USE flags configured which creates the conflict. Possibly you have set > the USE="crypt" for glibc.
I removed virtual/libcrypt and asked a new build, It whined about requiring "static-libs". So I tried that. Lo and behold... ===================================================================== [thimk2][root][~] USE="static-libs" emerge -pv -1 virtual/libcrypt These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild U ] sys-libs/glibc-2.34-r10:2.2::gentoo [2.33-r1:2.2::gentoo] USE="multiarch ssp (static-libs) -audit -caps (-cet) -compile-locales (-crypt*) (-custom-cflags) -doc -gd -headers-only (-multilib) -multilib-bootstrap -nscd -profile (-selinux) -static-pie -suid -systemd% -systemtap -test (-vanilla)" 17,047 KiB [ebuild N ] virtual/libcrypt-2:0/2::gentoo USE="static-libs" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] sys-libs/libxcrypt-4.4.27:0/1::gentoo USE="(compat) (split-usr) static-libs (system) -test" 605 KiB Total: 3 packages (1 upgrade, 2 new), Size of downloads: 17,651 KiB ===================================================================== Notes... 1) Updating glibc 2) pulling in virtual/libcrypt-2 3) pulling in sys-libs/libxcrypt-4.4.27 4) ***NO BLOCKER MESSAGES*** I'll run it for real and let you guys know how things went. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
