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From: Zeerak Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:46:26
Message-Id: op.u6umljzeagyv58@zeerak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:42:05 +0100, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > However, I do not have any kde packages that I know of -- I wonder what
4 > is pulling that in. I certainly do not have arts.
5 >
6 > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
7 >
8 >> On Wednesday 20 January 2010 21:41:54 covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
9 >> > Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an
10 >> > upgrade, I just get the following:
11 >> >
12 >> > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
13 >> >
14 >> > Calculating dependencies... done!
15 >> >
16 >> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/arts:3.5".
17 >> >
18 >> > I tried a -t, but it didn't give me anything. How can I tell what is
19 >> > happening here?
20 >>
21 >> This has been well documented and well discussed here there and
22 >> everywhere.
23 >>
24 >> Gentoo has dropped all kde-3.5 packages from portage. They are now in
25 >> the kde-
26 >> sunset overlay, you need layman to access them. That error proves you
27 >> do not
28 >> have the overlay enabled.
29 >>
30 >> --
31 >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
32 >
33
34 Perhaps equery belongs arts could help?
35
36 --
37 Zeerak

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Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>