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Wes Gray schreef: |
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> On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 01:21:37PM -0700, Zac Medico wrote: |
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>> With revdep-rebuild it tries to remerge the same version that you |
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>> have installed. If your version is no longer in the portage tree, |
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>> then "there are no ebuilds to satisfy" your old version. You |
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>> should update to versions that currently exist in the portage tree. |
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> I don't follow why python was out of date though. I had emerged it |
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> recently. I finally had to upgrade it to the older 2.2 version to get |
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> revdep-rebuild to work which makes no sense to me. |
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Python is one of the apps which use SLOTs. This means that you can |
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'upgrade' Python without disturbing the previous version, as the |
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'upgrade' is installed alongside the original version, in a new SLOT, |
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rather than replacing it. SLOTted installs are designated by [ NS] (for |
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New Slot) rather than [ N] (New) or [ U] (Upgrade) in the emerge listing |
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(if you emerge with --pretend or --ask so that you can see what Portage |
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is going to do before it does it, which is always a good idea, preferably |
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with --verbose as well). |
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So it's within the realm of possibility that you emerged whatever |
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version of Python into a new SLOT, and the original version still |
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existed, and that's what revdep-rebuild was upset about. If you aren't |
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using the older 2.2 version (nothing depends on it that can't work with |
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a more current version of python), you might consider running |
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python-rebuilder to migrate any stray modules and then unmerging 2.2 |
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(since you won't need it any more). |
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Hope this helps. |
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Holly |
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