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James writes: |
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> Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p. |
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> The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages |
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> that are very old. 'equery depengs <package> reveals that nothing |
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> is dependent of the first few packages. |
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> I'm open to suggestions as to how to clean up this mess: |
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> Here is the packages that 'revdep-rebuild -p' wanted to rebuild: |
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> emerge --oneshot -p =media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss-0.8.11 |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11 |
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> equery depends =media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11 |
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> [ Searching for packages depending on |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11... ] <nothing returned> |
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> equery depends =media-plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.11 |
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> [ Searching for packages depending on |
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> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.11... ] !!! Warning: No packages found |
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> matching =media-plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.11 |
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> Ideas on fixing this are most welcome. |
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I just omit the = and the release number in that cases. |
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Does "equery depends media-plugins/gst-plugins" give anything? I guess not, |
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otherwise these tools would have already been upgraded with "emerge -aDu |
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world". Maybe you do not need them anyway, and "emerge -a --depclean" would |
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remove them. |
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Wonko |
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