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From: Grant <emailgrant@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:14:17
Message-Id: 49bf44f10901230914h42b334a7yacdd10fee399f603@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop by Willie Wong
1 >> One of my systems with totally empty package.* files wants to emerge
2 >> hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 as it should, but --depclean wants to:
3 >
4 > How do you determine this? (I mean the "as it should" part?)
5
6 I just mean 2.6.25-r13 is the latest amd64 version so it should be installed.
7
8 > Are you running ~ or stable?
9
10 Stable.
11
12 >> >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
13 >>
14 >> sys-kernel/hardened-sources
15 >> selected: 2.6.25-r13
16 >> protected: none
17 >> omitted: 2.6.27-r3
18 >>
19 >> If I do that, emerge world just wants to emerge it again. Does anyone
20 >> know how to fix this?
21 >
22 > If you remove it, what does emerge -pvt say?
23
24 This is right after running emerge --depclean which removed
25 hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13:
26
27 # emerge -pvt hardened-sources
28
29 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
30
31 Calculating dependencies... done!
32 [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/hardened-sources-2.6.25-r13 [2.6.27-r3]
33 USE="-build -symlink" 0 kB
34
35 - Grant

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge world / --depclean infinite loop Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu>