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On 6/18/19 1:00 PM, John Covici wrote: |
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> On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:46:43 -0400, |
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> Dale wrote: |
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>> John Covici wrote: |
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>>> It would seem impossible for me to switch to profile 17.1. I say this |
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>>> because I can never run emerge --depclean . I have a few packages |
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>>> which will not compile and one not in the tree anymore. the packages |
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>>> which will not compile are mono-4.4.1.0 and totem-3.30 -- I have filed |
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>>> bugs against both of them. Inn no longer configures and I have |
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>>> discussed this in another thread. So, where can I go with this? I |
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>>> hate to just go forward, although these packages look they don't have |
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>>> any lib32 dependencies. Wat do you thihnk about this? |
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>>> |
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>>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions. |
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>>> |
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>> I read other replies and had a thought. Couldn't you run emerge -p |
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>> --depclean and let it list what needs cleaning up, then clean it up |
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>> manually with -C or some other option that works? It would take more |
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>> time to do it that way but at least you would have a cleaner system |
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>> without removing your packages you want to keep. May make the profile |
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>> switch easier. |
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>> Also, you could use --exclude on --depclean as well. Since I rarely |
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>> reboot, I do manual updates on my kernel, I emerge them then mask them |
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>> so it doesn't want to update every little version increase. When I run |
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>> --depclean, I have to use --exclude gentoo-sources to make it ignore my |
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>> kernel sources. In your case, emerge -p --depclean --exclude mono |
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>> --exclude totem --exclude inn, assuming I have that last one spelled |
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>> correctly. |
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>> Just make sure you use -a or -p with those first. Wouldn't want to |
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>> forget and really mess up something. :/ |
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>> |
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>> Would either of those work for you? |
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> Here is the exact output from emerge --depclean |
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> Calculating dependencies ........ done! |
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> * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to |
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> * the following required packages not being installed: |
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> * |
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> * gnome-base/gnome-desktop:3/12= pulled in by: |
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> * media-video/totem-3.24.0 |
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> * |
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> * dev-libs/openssl:0/0= pulled in by: |
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> * net-nntp/inn-2.5.5-r1 |
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> * |
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> * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to |
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> depclean? The |
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> * most comprehensive command for this purpose is as |
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> follows: |
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> * |
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> * emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y |
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> @world |
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> * |
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> * Note that the --with-bdeps=y option is not |
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> required in many |
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> * situations. Refer to the emerge manual page |
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> (run `man emerge`) |
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> * for more information about --with-bdeps. |
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> * |
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> * Also, note that it may be necessary to |
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> manually uninstall |
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> * packages that no longer exist in the |
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> repository, since it may not |
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> * be possible to satisfy their |
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> dependencies. |
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Can you manually emerge those needed packages? |
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(gnome-base/gnome-desktop:3/12 and dev-libs/openssl:0/9) That should be |
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possible even though you can't compile inn or totem. |
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