Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] having unavailable packages installed
Date: Sun, 30 Apr 2017 01:47:58
Message-Id: caffefc1-03e1-c486-1c66-fda1dac6bd58@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] having unavailable packages installed by lee
1 lee wrote:
2 > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 >> lee wrote:
5 >>> Hi,
6 >>>
7 >>> how is it possible that a package is installed which is not available?
8 >>>
9 >>>
10 >>> eix glibmm
11 >>> [?] dev-cpp/glibmm
12 >>> Verfügbare Versionen: (2) 2.44.0 2.46.4 2.48.1 ~2.50.0
13 >>> {debug doc examples test ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
14 >>> Installierte Versionen: 2.50.1(2)(16:58:00 24.04.2017)(-debug -doc -test ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32")
15 >>> Startseite: http://www.gtkmm.org
16 >>> Beschreibung: C++ interface for glib2
17 >>>
18 >>>
19 >>> 2.50.1(2) appears to be installed but is not available.
20 >>>
21 >>>
22 >> Usually when you see that, it was removed from the tree. Some packages
23 >> are upgraded in the tree then a little while later, older versions are
24 >> removed from the tree. I've seen that several times. There may be
25 >> other reasons for that but that is the one I see quite often.
26 > You mean one of the not-so-old version was removed? That could be.
27
28
29 I guess it depends on how the maintainer does it. I've seen a few times
30 when they release a minor update that fixes something serious and then
31 remove the old one right away or very shortly after. Some maintainers
32 leave older versions in the tree for quite a while. I stopped
33 scratching my head over it a long time ago. lol
34
35 >
36 >> By the way, if for some reason you have to have that version, you can
37 >> grab the ebuild and put it in a local overlay. Make sure you don't let
38 >> that get updated/removed before you do that tho.
39 > I don't know, I only came across it when trying to get mysql-workbench
40 > to compile. I don't know why it's installed.
41 >
42
43 I have it installed here as well. This is what pulls it in here:
44
45
46 root@fireball / # equery d glibmm
47 * These packages depend on glibmm:
48 dev-cpp/atkmm-2.24.2
49 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.46.2:2[doc?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
50 dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.5
51 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.34.1:2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
52 dev-cpp/pangomm-2.40.1
53 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.48.0:2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
54 sys-block/gparted-0.27.0 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.14:2)
55 root@fireball / #
56
57
58 It seems several packages here pull it in.
59
60
61 >> Hope that helps.
62 > ty :)
63 >
64 >> Dale
65 >>
66 >> :-) :-)
67 >>
68 >>
69 >>
70
71 Welcome.
72
73 Dale
74
75 :-) :-)