Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely
Date: Sun, 12 May 2013 15:37:08
Message-Id: 518FB703.1070608@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On 12/05/2013 13:29, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
2 > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3 >
4 >> On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
5 >>
6 >>> Hi. I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried
7 >>> to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following:
8 >>
9 >> I didn't know Gentoo specifically made an unstable version, it's
10 >> generally rock solid for me.
11 > Buy unstable I meant ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
12 >
13 >
14 >>
15 >>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
16 >>>
17 >>> Calculating dependencies .... done!
18 >>>
19 >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-libs/xulrunner:1.9".
20 >>> (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
21 >>>
22 >>> I have xulrunner 2.0 installed, although it looks like nothing depends
23 >>> on that package, so I am not sure what is going on. I looked at
24 >>> /var/lib/portage/preserved-rebuild-registrybut can't find xulrunner
25 >>> anywhere in that file. How can I proceed?
26 >>
27 >> emerge -cav xulrunner
28 > I have no ebuilds for xulrunner at all in the tree. But I will try as
29 > you suggest because there seems to be nothing dependent on it.
30 > Well, that did something good, now its going right along.
31 >
32 > Thanks so much -- this is a great mailing list.
33
34 xulrunner is no longer in the tree.
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36 What I would do is run ldd on everything in lib dirs and grep for
37 xulrunner to find which ancient package wants it. Then rebuild that package.
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42 Alan McKinnon
43 alan.mckinnon@×××××.com