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From: Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense
Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2007 03:00:22
Message-Id: 1170298687.7652.4.camel@athena.fprintf.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense by Harm Geerts
1 On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 00:06 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote:
2 > On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Dieter Ries wrote:
3 > > Hi,
4 > >
5 > > on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
6 > > afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output:
7 > >
8 > > All prepared. Starting rebuild...
9 > > emerge --oneshot =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2
10 > > =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5
11 > > =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1
12 > > =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1
13 > > ..........
14 > > Calculating dependencies
15 > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2".
16 > >
17 > >
18 > > revdep-rebuild failed to emerge all packages
19 > >
20 > > so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist???
21 >
22 > Because revdep-rebuild always merges the exact same version.
23 > Otherwise you'd have a lot of trouble rebuilding/detecting broken slotted
24 > packages.
25 >
26 > And because it makes more sense to force manual interaction then creating a
27 > broken tool. e.g. emerge gnome-base/gnome-libs yourself.
28
29 Consider revdep-rebuild -X, which will merge the newest version of the
30 package, rather then the exact version.
31
32 That said, gnome-libs is gone from the tree. All you can do is remove
33 it.
34
35 Daniel
36
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>