It's been much less than a year since I've updated last, however I'm experiencing problems updating my system. First off, I have Gentoo 2007.0 installed on an AMD64 X2 3800+ (SMP kernel.) I cannot upgrade PAM from 0.99.8.1-r1 to 0.99.9.0. The output of trying to do so is the following:
emerge pam Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Verifying ebuild Manifests... >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-libs/pam-0.99.9.0 to / * Linux-PAM-0.99.9.0.tar.bz2 RMD160 SHA1 SHA256 size ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking ebuild checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking auxfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking miscfile checksums ;-) ... [ ok ] * checking Linux-PAM-0.99.9.0.tar.bz2 ;-) ... [ ok ] * * Your current setup is using one or more of the following modules, * that are not built or supported anymore: * pam_pwdb, pam_radius, pam_timestamp, pam_console * If you are in real need for these modules, please contact the maintainers * of PAM through http://bugs.gentoo.org/ providing information about its * use cases. * Please also make sure to read the PAM Upgrade guide at the following URL: * http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml * 'emerge --search pam' returns the following (I'm only going to include the actual listing for pam, and not all the other stuff it lists to keep the list short) * sys-libs/pam Latest version available: 0.99.9.0 Latest version installed: 0.99.8.1-r1 Size of files: 887 kB Homepage: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/pam/ Description: Linux-PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) License: PAM I've followed the Linux-PAM upgrade guide, which didn't mention what to do in the event that those modules were used. http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/base/pam/upgrade-0.99.xml There is a forum discussion on this matter, however none of the modules appear in /etc/pam.d/ files... I don't know enough about PAM and Gentoo to know if running a PAMless system would cause problems, I have been using linux for a while, but I am relatively new to Gentoo (and yes, I realize that PAM is not exclusive to Gentoo...) I've tried the #gentoo channel on FreeNode and after an hour of asking and waiting, was unable to receive an answer. Any help would be appriciated. Thanks! Hal Martin Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 12:57:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > >> Generally you can just emerge -uND world and we done with it. But life >> isn't always so simple. I can think of a few updates in the last while >> that were problematic, but I think they were all more than a year ago: >> > > The expat upgrade was less than a year ago for stable systems. > > I'd go with emerge -auvDN system and check the output carefully before > opting to proceed. I'd also make sure that ELOG is correctly set up in > make.conf so you don't miss any important massages. > > After updating system, it would be prudent to run revdep-rebuild before > moving onto the rest of world. > > emerge -e is pointless, portage is quite capable of determining what > needs to be updated, and reemerging everything just creates noise and > confusion that could make it harder to deal with any potential problems. > > >
