Bug 184569

Summary:	net-misc/howl emerge fails because preserve_old_lib() must be called from pkg_preinst() only
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Adam C. Reed <adam>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	minor
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	AMD64
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Adam C. Reed 2007-07-08 05:52:14 UTC

When emerging Rhythmbox with the +howl use flag set The emerge net-misc/howl fails due to  inproper use of the preserve_old_lib().  

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.emerge net-misc/howl
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Emerge fails with above mentioned error.

Expected Results:  
Emerge succeeds.

I have seen that howl has a bug requesting removal from the portage tree (<a href="http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=183776">183776</a>).  Doing my research on this bug leads me to second the afformentioned bug report.  Remove the Howl use flag, as it is deprecated, and replaced by avahi.

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-07-08 08:10:02 UTC

This is fixed in 1.0.0 only (and yeah, this thing is going away, it's dead).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 167991 ***