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Okay... Now I know. Not used to this whole build from source concept yet but |
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I am getting much better at it. I cleaned up everything and now have no more |
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broken dependencies. Apparently I've just never emerge --depclean. Again |
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Kudos for all the help. |
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Nick |
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On 11/2/05, Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@××××.nl> wrote: |
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> On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:30, Nick Currier wrote: |
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> > Looks like that got it guys. Thanks tons for the help.... It seems I |
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> broke |
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> > portage by running only part ~amd64 packages. revdep-rebuild found it |
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> but |
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> > it took twice to fix..... depclean wants to get rid of tons of stuff |
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> though |
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> > so I'm thinking this is a bad idea or I have bigger problems.... Kudos |
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> to |
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> > AMD64 Gentoo for the best support team in open source. |
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> |
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> It's normal for a system that hasn't been maintained the way it should ;) |
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> 1. Look over the list of packages that would be unmerged with: |
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> # emerge --pretend depclean |
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> 2. Inject the packages that should not be removed in your world file with: |
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> # emerge --noreplace <package name> |
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> Repeats steps 1 and 2 untill you are satisfied. |
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> 3. clean the remaining packages with: |
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> # emerge --ask depclean |
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> 4. rebuild packages that were built against older/removed libaries: |
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> # revdep-rebuild --pretend (part of app-portage/gentoolkit) |
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> In order to keep your system clean in the future upgrade world like this: |
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> 1. upgrade your world, remerge packages that have a changed USE flag and |
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> upgrade deep dependencies. |
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> # emerge --ask --deep --newuse --upgrade world |
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> 2. rebuild packages that were built against older/removed libaries |
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> # revdep-rebuild --pretend |
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> If you ever remove a package do it like this: |
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> 1. remove the package |
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> # emerge --ask --unmerge package |
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> 2. remove the dependencies but always check the output. other packages |
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> might |
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> use them even though they are not a direct dependency |
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> # emerge --ask depclean |
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> 3. rebuild packages that were build against libaries you just removed |
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> # revdep-rebuild --pretend |
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> This is how I maintain all my systems. |
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> If anyone has remarks/tips I'd be glad to hear them. |
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