Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with preserved-rebuild

[Alan McKinnon]

On Sunday 16 August 2009 21:37:27 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > On Sunday 16 August 2009 21:18:01 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 16 August 2009 19:27:12 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > > > > Hi.  I am having problems with emerge @preserved-rebuild which used
> > > > > to work fine, but on the latest time I tried it, I got the
> > > > > following message:
> > > > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
> > > > >
> > > > > Calculating dependencies ... done!
> > > > >
> > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-libs/apr-util:0".
> > > >
> > > >                                                         ^^^^^^
> > > > There is no SLOT 0 for apr-util
> > > >
> > > > Use equery depends apr-util to find out what used it and rebuild
> > > > those.
> > >
> > > I did that and got the same results.
> >
> > what exactly did you do and what output did you get from equery?
>
> I emerged the packages mentioned in the equery -- I don't have the
> output, although I can do it now.
>
>  * Searching for apr-util ...
> app-admin/apache-tools-2.2.12 (=dev-libs/apr-util-1*)
> dev-util/subversion-1.6.4-r10 (>=dev-libs/apr-util-1.3:1)
> www-servers/apache-2.2.12 (=dev-libs/apr-util-1*)
>
> I emerged the packages mentioned -- without using the version numbers
> and when I did the emerge @preserved-rebuild again I got the same
> results as before.

portage somehow thinks you have apr-utils:0 installed, or need to have it 
installed. Check the following:

Is it in the world file?
Check versions and SLOTS for apr-utils in /var/db/pkg/
Check the output of "eix -e apr-util" to see what exactly you have - keep in 
mind that a package without a SLOT is 0 by default. I suspect the devs bumped 
apr-util to SLOT=1


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