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From: Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:29:11
Message-Id: 200911021129.02727.wonko@wonkology.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop by Robin Atwood
1 Robin Atwood wrote:
2
3 > On Thursday 29 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
4
5 [...]
6 emerge -a @preserved-rebuild suggests to rebuild two packages, but
7 continues to do so after emerging them.
8 [...]
9
10 > > root@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
11 > >
12 > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
13 > >
14 > > Calculating dependencies ... done!
15 > > [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214
16 > > [ebuild R ] kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2
17 > >
18 > > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
19 >
20 > This has been asked, which may indicate there is something strange about
21 > kalgebra or emerge sometimes confuses itself. My solution was eventually
22 > to delete /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry and then
23 > revdep-rebuild to CYA. :)
24
25 Okay, I just that, too. No strange rebuild messages any more, emerge output
26 looks more tidy now. Whatever :)
27
28 Thanks,
29
30 Wonko