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From: Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.EDU>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 18:59:35
Message-Id: 20050727185425.GA27056@princeton.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound by Martin Larsson
1 On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:05:48PM +0200, Martin Larsson wrote:
2 > On 7/27/05, Matan Peled <chaosite@×××××.com> wrote:
3 > >
4 > > try revdep-rebuild.
5 >
6 > Thanks, that gives:
7 > Warning: Failed to resolve package order.
8 > Will merge in "random" order!
9 > <snip>
10 > All prepared. Starting rebuild...
11 > emerge --oneshot =app-text/openjade-1.3.2-r1 =app-text/xpdf-3.00-r8
12 > =dev-java/libreadline-java-0.8.0-r1
13 > =dev-perl/sdl-perl-1.20.3
14 > =net-libs/gnutls-1.2.3 =sys-fs/cryptsetup-0.1-r1
15 > ..........
16 > Calculating dependencies /
17 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-perl/sdl-perl-1.20.3".
18 >
19 > Which is kind of strange as 'emerge -av sdl-perl' gives:
20 > [ebuild U ] dev-perl/sdl-perl-1.20.3-r1 [1.20.3] +mpeg +truetype 779 kB
21 >
22 > Now what?
23 >
24 > M.
25
26 First emerge the new version of sdl-perl
27 emerge --oneshot sdl-perl
28 then remove the tempfiles created by revdep-rebuild
29 and run revdep-rebuild again.
30
31 The problem is that somewhere along the line the sdl-perl-1.20.3
32 ebuild was removed, and revdep-rebuild defaults to re-emerging the
33 same version of the program as currently in your system...
34
35 Though for this to happen, sdl-perl is probably a deep dependency that
36 never got updated (try emerge --deep sometime).
37
38 W
39 --
40 Nothing is fool-proof to sufficiently talented fools.
41 Sortir en Pantoufles: up 2 days, 18:22
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Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with esound Martin Larsson <martin.larsson@×××××.com>