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From: PaulNM <gentoo@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package
Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:34:52
Message-Id: 452DE107.4010909@paulscrap.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package by Trenton Adams
1 Trenton Adams wrote:
2 > Why does revdep-rebuild try and update packages that do not exist? Is
3 > this a bug, or am I missing something?
4 >
5 > # revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 -- -p -v 2>&1
6 > ...
7 > Calculating dependencies /
8 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.3.5".
9 >
10 >
11 > # equery list python
12 > [ Searching for package 'python' in all categories among: ]
13 > * installed packages
14 > [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 (2.4)
15 > [I--] [ ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 (0)
16 It looks like an old version of python is still on your system from
17 when there was an ebuild for it. I'd suggest "emerge -p --depclean" to
18 see if it would remove it.
19
20 PaulNM
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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>