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From: Robert Persson <ireneshusband@××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] "emerge --buildpkgonly world" won't go: kde metapackage problem?
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:26:51
Message-Id: 200601221021.59715.ireneshusband@yahoo.co.uk
1 I am trying to emerge --buildpkgonly -u world, but it won't go:
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3 zebedee ~ # emerge --buildpkgonly -u world
4 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
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6 !!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged.
7 !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again.
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10 However when I only pretend to do it I get no errors:
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12 zebedee ~ # emerge --pretend --buildpkgonly -u world
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14 These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
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16 Calculating world dependencies ...done!
17 [ebuild NS ] sys-kernel/mm-sources-2.6.16_rc1-r2
18 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/libperl-5.8.7 [5.8.6-r1]
19 [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.7-r3 [5.8.6-r8]
20 [ebuild U ] sys-devel/gnuconfig-20051223 [20051113]
21 ...etc...etc...etc...
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24 The reason I want to avoid installing straight away is because I'm doing a kde
25 upgrade this time (3.4.3 to 3.5) and want to avoid a broken desktop, but
26 could kde in fact be the very source of the problem? Is emerge getting
27 confused by the split kde metafiles again?
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29 Or does the problem lie somewhere else?
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31 Thanks people!
32 Robert
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34 Robert Persson
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36 Conspiracy Bears:
37 Once upon a time there were lots of conspiracy bears...
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