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Stu, |
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How would you go about determining which package required the old dep? |
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For example, how did you know transcode was the one requesting the |
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downgrade? Is there an emerge flag to spit out all the packages that |
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depend on a given package/ver? |
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Thanks! |
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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Stuart Bouyer [mailto:stuart_bouyer@××××××.jp] |
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> Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 7:27 AM |
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> To: gentoo-dev@g.o |
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> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] --deep oddity |
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> |
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> On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:51:58 +0000 |
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> MAL <mal@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Hi, could someone help me better understand why --deep does |
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> the things |
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> > it does :) |
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> > |
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> > I have gkrellm-2.1.5 installed, and an emerge -pu --deep world says: |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > [ebuild UD] app-admin/gkrellm-1.2.13 [2.1.5] |
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> > |
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> > (after others) |
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> > |
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> > |
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> > Why does this happen? Does gkrellm 1 have a higher |
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> 'priority' than 2 |
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> > or something? |
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> > |
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> My guess is that one of the ebuilds after gkrellm-1.2.13 had |
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> gkrellm 1 as a dependancy and as you don't meet that |
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> dependancy it needs to emerge gkrellm1. Probably one of the |
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> later ebuilds given by emerge -up --deep world is a gkrellm |
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> plugin that hasn't been ported to gkrellm2 yet. For example |
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> on my system |
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> |
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> emerge -p gkrellmouse |
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> |
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> These are the packages that I would merge, in order: |
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> |
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> Calculating dependencies ...done! |
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> [ebuild UD] app-admin/gkrellm-1.2.13 [2.1.5] |
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> [ebuild N ] x11-plugins/gkrellmouse-0.0.2 |
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> |
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> You best option here would be to unmerge the ebuild that |
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> needs gkrellm1. |
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> On my system I emerged transcode a month or so ago, and |
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> recently emerged mpegtools, which updated avifile to 0.7.29 |
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> |
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> However as transcode has a dependancy of avifile between |
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> 0.7.4 and 0.7.22, emerge -up --deep world wants to downgrade |
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> to avifile-0.7.15 to meet the depndancies of transcode. |
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> In this case there isn't a bug in portage, the problem lies |
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> in some packages installed on your computer having outdated |
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> dependancies |
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> Hope this straightens things out for you |
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> |
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> Stu |
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> -- |
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> GnuPG KeyID 1607E7F7 |
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> Key fingerprint = 5C38 AA94 A4C1 6AAF 0EE4 C089 EE01 193D |
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> 1607 E7F7 gpg --keyserver search.keyserver.net --recv-keys 1607E7F7 |
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