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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please!
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:05
Message-Id: 9880844.oCiNLeZFty@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Building pygtk-2.22.0-r1 fails. Help, please! by Alan McKinnon
1 On Saturday 23 April 2011 22:21:28 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > Apparently, though unproven, at 18:35 on Saturday 23 April 2011, Alan
3 >
4 > Mackenzie did opine thusly:
5 > > OK. I managed to get the problem fixed, basically by trying everything,
6 > >
7 > > though I don't really understand what I did. This was my recipe:
8 > > emerge --sync
9 > > emerge --update --deep --newuse xfce4-meta
10 > >
11 > > , which updated libglade-2.6.4 and pygtk-2.22.0-r1 successfully. So
12 > > thanks!
13 >
14 > In that case, you either had an incomplete portage tree and syncing gave you
15 > all the bits you needed. Or the pygtk ebuild was faulty and the dev fixed
16 > it without bumping the version number.
17
18 which happens everytime a version is so bugged it does not install.