Calls arches, please test and mark vsftpd-2.0.3-r1 stable ia64 and s390 will need to test and stable net-ftp/ftpbase-0.00 at the same time as it is a required dependency (already stable on other arches)
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 refused to let me install this package, complaining that ftpbase was blocked by the older version of vsftpd which was already on my system. When I uninstalled the older version first, the installation of the two packages proceeded normally. This seems more like a bug in portage than like a bug in the package, but it's definitely someone's bug.
Nope, that's how it's meant to work. It's to ensure that only ftpbase owns /etc/pam.d/ftp and /etc/ftpusers - mailbase works in a similar way.
(In reply to comment #2) > Nope, that's how it's meant to work. > It's to ensure that only ftpbase owns /etc/pam.d/ftp and /etc/ftpusers - > mailbase works in a similar way. I realize that ftpbase won't work properly with older versions of vsftpd, but portage should still allow installing the new version of vsftpd at the same time as ftpbase is installed. As it is, portage says "Sorry, you can't install ftpbase because it conflicts with your old vsftpd, but you can't upgrade to the new vsftpd until you install ftpbase." This is easily remedied by first uninstalling the old vsftpd manually, but it shouldn't have to be remedied.
stable on ppc64
agriffis marked stable on alpha
