Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild will not run at all

Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM,  <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
> > I have a fair number of preserved-libs, but it will not run at all and
> > gives the rather strange message:
> > Calculating dependencies... done!
> >
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-tex/mplib:0".
> > (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild")
> >
> > Now I have no such package and an eix seems to indicate that there is no
> > such, so how do I get this rebuild going again?
> >
> > Thanks in advance for all your help.
> >
> > --
> > Your life is like a penny.  You're going to lose it.  The question is:
> > How do
> > you spend it?
> >
> >         John Covici
> >         covici@××××××××××.com
> >
> >
>
> Probably searching for packages that depend on mplib, (equery) then
> emerge -C them (it's what I'd probably do - depends...) then re-emerge
> them if you still use them? Note that I'd go back to finding what
> members of the world file need all this stuff and emerge that with
> -DuN, maybe even doing a -depclean after the emerge -C. It's all a
> guess though.
>
> Seems like this sort of thing happens when a package gets dumped in an
> upgrade but somehow the ebuilds or package manager don't get updated
> or just don't work perfectly.
>
> Again, all a guess but I can usually figure it out looking at equery
> output, etc.
Well, there was a package, but no ebuild, so I deleted the package and
its going, but someone broke something.  I wish you could not delete an
ebuild if you have the package, or it would put it somewhere to prevent
this kind of thing.

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         John Covici
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