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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package...
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015 00:58:30
Message-Id: 55062A9C.7000301@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] cannot emerge @preserved-rebuild due to removed package... by Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
1 Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> [15-03-14 09:20]:
3 >> Meino.Cramer@×××.de wrote:
4 >>> Hi,
5 >>>
6 >>> emerge hits me:
7 >>>
8 >>> Whiletrying to reolve a lot of blockers, emerge @preserved-rebuild
9 >>> gives me this:
10 >>>
11 >>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/solid:4".
12 >>> (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
13 >>>
14 >>> emerge itself can be called without that error.
15 >>> How can an argument to a command haves a dependency?
16 >>>
17 >>> How can I get out of this?
18 >>>
19 >>> Best regards,
20 >>> mcc
21 >>>
22 >>>
23 >>>
24 >>>
25 >>
26 >> Hmmmm.
27 >>
28 >> root@fireball / # equery list -p solid
29 >> * Searching for solid ...
30 >> [-P-] [ ~] kde-frameworks/solid-5.7.0:5/5.7
31 >> root@fireball / #
32 >>
33 >> It seems there is no 4 versions. Do you perhaps have a 4 version listed
34 >> in your world file that sneaked in there somehow? If so, removing that
35 >> may allow a upgrade. If not, interesting problem.
36 >>
37 >> Dale
38 >>
39 >> :-) :-)
40 >>
41 > Hi Dale,
42 >
43 > thank you for your reply ! :)
44 >
45 > ...there is no 4 version in the /var/lib/portage/world file.
46 > So it is an interesting problem...unfortunately: "..for me;" ;)
47 >
48 > Is there a way to find the one, which pulls this solid 4 version?
49 >
50 >
51 > best regards,
52 > mcc
53 >
54 >
55
56 I think you have this fixed already but the only thing I can think of is
57 to add the -t option to emerge. Sometimes that helps, sometimes it just
58 makes one scratch their head on the other side.
59
60 Dale
61
62 :-) :-)