Re: [gentoo-user] how can I everr switch to profile 17.1?

[John Covici]

On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:08:09 -0400,
Jack wrote:
>
> On 6/18/19 1:00 PM, John Covici wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:46:43 -0400,
> > Dale wrote:
> >> John Covici wrote:
> >>> It would seem impossible for me to switch to profile 17.1.  I say this
> >>> because I can never run emerge --depclean .  I have a few packages
> >>> which will not compile and one not in the tree anymore.  the packages
> >>> which will not compile are mono-4.4.1.0 and totem-3.30 -- I have filed
> >>> bugs against both of them.  Inn no longer configures and I have
> >>> discussed this in another thread.  So, where can I go with this?  I
> >>> hate to just go forward, although these packages look they don't have
> >>> any lib32 dependencies.  Wat do you thihnk about this?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I read other replies and had a thought.  Couldn't you run emerge -p
> >> --depclean and let it list what needs cleaning up, then clean it up
> >> manually with -C or some other option that works?  It would take more
> >> time to do it that way but at least you would have a cleaner system
> >> without removing your packages you want to keep.  May make the profile
> >> switch easier.
> >>
> >> Also, you could use --exclude on --depclean as well.  Since I rarely
> >> reboot, I do manual updates on my kernel, I emerge them then mask them
> >> so it doesn't want to update every little version increase.  When I run
> >> --depclean, I have to use --exclude gentoo-sources to make it ignore my
> >> kernel sources.  In your case, emerge -p --depclean --exclude mono
> >> --exclude totem --exclude inn, assuming I have that last one spelled
> >> correctly.
> >>
> >> Just make sure you use -a or -p with those first.  Wouldn't want to
> >> forget and really mess up something.  :/
> >>
> >> Would either of those work for you?
> > Here is the exact output from emerge --depclean
> >
> > Calculating dependencies  ........ done!
> >   * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
> >    * the following required packages not being installed:
> >     *
> >      *   gnome-base/gnome-desktop:3/12= pulled in by:
> >       *     media-video/totem-3.24.0
> > 	 *
> > 	  *   dev-libs/openssl:0/0= pulled in by:
> > 	   *     net-nntp/inn-2.5.5-r1
> > 	    *
> > 	     * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to
> >              depclean? The
> > 		   * most comprehensive command for this purpose is as
> >              follows:
> > 		   *
> > 		    *   emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y
> >                    @world
> > 			    *
> > 			     * Note that the --with-bdeps=y option is not
> >                        required in many
> > 				   * situations. Refer to the emerge manual page
> >                        (run `man emerge`)
> > 				   * for more information about --with-bdeps.
> > 				    *
> > 				     * Also, note that it may be necessary to
> >                             manually uninstall
> > 					   * packages that no longer exist in the
> >                             repository, since it may not
> > 					   * be possible to satisfy their
> >                             dependencies.
> Can you manually emerge those needed packages?
> (gnome-base/gnome-desktop:3/12 and dev-libs/openssl:0/9)  That
> should be possible even though you can't compile inn or totem.
>

They don't seem to be valid package atoms -- according to portage.

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