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John P. Burkett wrote: |
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> Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response |
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> the included the following lines: |
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> * All prepared. Starting rebuild |
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> emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 |
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> gnome-base/gnome-panel:0 |
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> kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5 |
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> mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0 |
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> media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad:0.8 |
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> media-plugins/xmms-alsa:0 |
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> media-plugins/xmms-vorbis:0 |
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> media-video/totem:0 |
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> .......... |
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> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy |
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> "mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0". |
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> After doing emerge -C evolution, I redid revdep-rebuild but got the same |
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> response. After doing emerge evolution, I again redid revdep-rebuild, |
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> with the same results. |
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> Suggestions for how to successfully run revdep-rebuild would be most |
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> welcome. I'm willing to sacrifice evolution if that would help. |
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Hmm, somehow portage got the idea there is a package named |
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mail-client/-MERGING-evolution, which is false. If you are lucky: |
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emerge -avC mail-client/-MERGING-evolution |
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Although that could fail, as package names aren't supposed to start with |
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-, so who knows what portage does with it. Next shot, clear out anything |
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you don't need (make sure to check the output, although these days this |
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command is safe unless you have done something strange). |
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emerge -av --depclean |
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Final shot is to play around in /var/db/pkg. This is where portage keeps |
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track of what is installed, and how, so messing around here is |
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inherently unsafe. I have my suspicions as to the correct thing to do |
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here, but I won't post it since I'm not terribly sure. Someone with more |
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expertise could help here, but I suspect either method 1 or 2 will work. |
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Nick |
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