Re: [gentoo-user] eix-test-obolete

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 13 May 2008, reader@×××××××.com wrote:
> When running `eix-test-obsolete' after update world and
> revdep-rebuild I get a list of 14 pkgs under the heading as listed
> below.
> What does this mean... I'm running ~x86 and have been for yrs so the
> ones that show `U' should have gotten updated during ... -vuD world.

Not necessarily. Perhaps the package is not in world, but is pulled in 
by something else. Now, if every DEPENDS related to that package simply 
says any old version must be there, an emerge world will not 
necessarily pick up any updates. And it should have to: it's not in 
world, every other package that uses it is quite happy with the version 
you do have.


>   root # emerge -vp dev-lang/nasm
>   These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>   [...]
>   [ebuild     U ] dev-lang/nasm-2.02 [2.00] USE="-build -doc" 713 kB
>
> Shows it will be updated.   So why is -vuD world missing this pkg
> (and the others)?
>
> Some.. maybe all show piles of dependencies and some ..(the ones I've
> grepped so far) do not appear in world file.
>
> I guess I don't understand how the system got these packages but
> appears not to know much about them.
>
> ==========================================================
> Final output of eix-test-obsolete"
> [...]

See the line below?

> Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked):

They probably got left behind during gnome updates.

emerge -av --depclean finds these


alan


>
> [U] dev-lang/nasm (2.00@01/02/08 -> (~)2.02): groovy little assembler
> [U] gnome-base/gconf (2.14.0(2)@06/20/06 -> (~)2.22.0): Gnome
> Configuration System and Daemon
> [U] gnome-base/gnome-keyring (0.4.9@08/14/06 -> (~)2.22.1): Password
> and keyring managing daemon
> [U] gnome-base/gnome-vfs (2.14.2-r1(2)@01/16/07 -> (~)2.22.0): Gnome
> Virtual Filesystem
> [U] gnome-base/libbonobo (2.14.0@06/20/06 -> (~)2.22.0): GNOME CORBA
> framework
> [U] gnome-base/libbonoboui (2.14.0@08/14/06 -> (~)2.22.0): User
> Interface part of libbonobo
> [U] gnome-base/libgnome (2.14.1@08/14/06 -> (~)2.22.0): Essential
> Gnome Libraries
> [U] gnome-base/libgnomeui (2.14.1@08/14/06 -> (~)2.22.1): User
> Interface routines for Gnome
> [U] gnome-base/orbit (2.14.0(2)@06/20/06 -> 2.14.12): ORBit2 is a
> high-performance CORBA ORB
> [U] kde-base/kiconedit (3.5.7(3.5)@11/18/07 -> (~)3.5.9): KDE Icon
> Editor
> [U] net-libs/libgssglue (0.1@10/07/07 -> 0.1-r1): exports a gssapi
> interface which calls other random gssapi libraries
> [D] www-apps/gallery (2.2.3(2.2.3)@10/08/07 2.2.4(2.2.4)@01/19/08 ->
> 1.5.3 (~)1.5.7 2.2.4): Web based (PHP Script) photo album
> viewer/creator
> [U] x11-misc/icon-naming-utils (0.7.2@06/20/06 -> 0.8.6): Utils to
> help with the transition to the new freedesktop.org naming scheme.
> [U] x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme (2.14.2@08/14/06 -> (~)2.22.0): GNOME
> 2 default icon themes
> Found 14 matches.



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Alan McKinnon
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