On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:58:33 hb-...@web.de wrote: > On 21.02.2010 16:31, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > package.provided is the wrong file. Your problem is caused by busybox > > being in @system, which is a subset of @world. That's why you see the > > message about it being in world even though it is not in the world file. > > To remove it from @system, add > > > > -sys-apps/busybox > > > > in /etc/portage/profile/packages. > > I tried this before I posted my question and did it again now ... sorry, > no ... this doesn't solve the problem. It doesn't matter if > /etc/portage/profile/packages (tried "packages." too, just to be sure) > contains "-sys-apps/busybox" or not, as soon as I do remove busybox from > package.provided emerge tries to install busybox-1.15.3, and if I add it > back to provided the warning reappears. > > What's wrong? Did any change of the system installation I made break > portage? ... but everything else seems to work fine. > > ... but thx for that fast try to help.
Have you tried making an ebuild for 1.16 and putting it in /usr/local/portage directory? That way you won't be fighting with portage about what version to install. -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. Then, when you do, you'll be a mile away, and you'll have their shoes.
