Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Dieter Ries <clip2@×××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 23:30:28
Message-Id: 200702010024.46093.clip2@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 Am Donnerstag 01 Februar 2007 00:17 schrieb Bo Ørsted Andresen:
2 > On Wednesday 31 January 2007 23:56:33 Dieter Ries wrote:
3 > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2".
4 > >
5 > > revdep-rebuild failed to emerge all packages
6 > >
7 > > so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist???
8 >
9 > Because you have it installed and it's broken. It was masked 2½ months ago
10 > [1] and removed from the tree 5 weeks ago [2]. Just unmerge it if you don't
11 > need it.
12
13 OK, Thank you. that makes sense.
14
15 Am Donnerstag 01 Februar 2007 00:06 schrieb Harm Geerts:
16 > Because revdep-rebuild always merges the exact same version.
17 > Otherwise you'd have a lot of trouble rebuilding/detecting broken slotted
18 > packages.
19
20 Yes, I knew about that.
21
22 >
23 > And because it makes more sense to force manual interaction then creating a
24 > broken tool. e.g. emerge gnome-base/gnome-libs yourself.
25
26 Localhorst dieter # eix gnome-libs
27 No matches found.
28 Localhorst dieter # emerge -s gnome-libs
29 Searching...
30 [ Results for search key : gnome-libs ]
31 [ Applications found : 0 ]
32
33 You see my problem?
34
35 But now I know about it being removed from the tree, there should not be any
36 more problems.
37
38 cu
39
40 Dieter
41
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