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From: Holly Bostick <motub@××××××.nl>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 13:02:49
Message-Id: 43B68032.3080404@planet.nl
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird by Kevin O'Gorman
1 Kevin O'Gorman schreef:
2 > On 12/30/05, Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Saturday 31 December 2005 13:58, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Or should I say portage as a whole. Anyway, my latest emerge
7 >>> world failed because of sun-jdk-1.4.2.10 (!!!). The current one
8 >>> is 1.5 something. The weird part is that I cannot find any reason
9 >>> for that
10 >>
11 >> package
12 >>
13 >>> to be emerged. 1) the world file contains just "sun-jdk" 2)
14 >>> "equery depends =sun-jdk-1.4.2.10" shows nothing at all 3)
15 >>> sun-jdk does not appear at all in /etc/portage/package.* files
16 >>>
17 >>> How should I explore this further?
18 >>
19 >> Whatever command you used to update, add --tree --pretend to it.
20 >
21 > This is interesting. sys-libs/db causes the old Java to be emerged.
22 > However, I've deleted that version, and then I re-emerged
23 > sys-libs/db. It still is calling for the old Java version.
24
25 If you look at the output
26
27 > [nomerge ] sys-libs/db-4.2.52_p2-r1 -bootstrap +doc +java
28 > -nocxx +tcltk
29
30 the reason db is calling for java is because you have the "java" USE
31 flag set for db.
32
33 Do you really need db to use Java? If not, disable the flag (# echo
34 'sys-libs/db -java' >>/etc/portage/package.use); problem solved.
35
36 Holly
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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge going weird Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>