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From: "Petteri Räty" <betelgeuse@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Reminder about the need to revision bump virtual providers when migrating to new style virtuals
Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 10:22:02
Message-Id: 44E83726.7050201@gentoo.org
1 When migrating to new style virtuals you must revision bump everything
2 providing the new style virtual to get rid of the PROVIDE files in
3 /var/db/pkg.
4
5 ./app-admin/gamin-0.1.7/PROVIDE:virtual/fam
6
7 If you do not do this, Portage considers the virtual installed without
8 actually looking at the new style virtual. In cases where versioning is
9 not needed this probably does not cause problems but for java this
10 caused problems like the following:
11
12 # emerge -pu world
13
14 These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
15
16 Calculating world dependencies |
17 emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy ">=dev-java/blackdown-jdk-1.5".
18 (dependency required by "dev-util/eclipse-sdk-3.2" [ebuild])
19
20 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=140834
21
22 Regards,
23 Petteri

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