On Wednesday 26 August 2009 11:00:35 Roy Wright wrote: > On Aug 26, 2009, at 2:46 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Wednesday 26 August 2009 05:10:18 meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: > >>> Sorry, I'm not following what you're trying to say :P > >> > >> jpeg-7 is masked, Without it any update process stops with this > >> failure. jpeg-7 needs itsself to update jpeg-7 (according the output > >> I posted). > > > > Incorrect. Something else is pulling it in and you snipped that > > output. Your > > initial post only says that emerge wants to include jpeg and it > > won't emerge > > version 7 as it is unstable and your box is stable. > > > > It's from some package that specifically wants jpeg-7 as opposed to > > just jpeg. > > Most likely netpbm which is hardcoded to DEPEND on jpeg-7. > > In my case, it was netpbm. Here's the steps I took to resolve the > problem: > > 1) emerge -1 -av jpeg > 2) Do NOT run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" > 3) emerge -av jpeg-compat > 4) revdep-rebuild > > I hit a problem when trying the "emerge @preserved-rebuild" in that > tightvnc had a jpeg-6b dependency, so pretty much had to use jpeg- > compat.
tightvnc works just fine with jpeg-7. You can do what I did and copy the tightvnc ebuild to a local overlay, patch with this, and let it rip: # diff -u net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild local/alan/net- misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild --- net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild 2009-04-20 20:52:22.000000000 +0200 +++ local/alan/net-misc/tightvnc/tightvnc-1.3.10-r1.ebuild 2009-08-25 17:00:54.000000000 +0200 @@ -16,7 +16,10 @@ LICENSE="GPL-2" SLOT="0" -CDEPEND="~media-libs/jpeg-6b +CDEPEND="|| ( + ~media-libs/jpeg-6b + ~media-libs/jpeg-7 + ) server? ( media-fonts/font-misc-misc media-fonts/font-cursor-misc -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com