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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] source repository could not be determined
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:25:40
Message-Id: 201002262322.32321.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] source repository could not be determined by Joseph
1 On Friday 26 February 2010 23:12:18 Joseph wrote:
2 > I'm trying to re-emerge package kbarcode but it keeps complaing:
3 > that the source repository could not be determined
4 >
5 > emerge -pv kbarcode
6 >
7 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
8 >
9 > Calculating dependencies... done!
10 > [ebuild R ] app-text/kbarcode-2.0.7 USE="-debug% -doc -xinerama%" 0 kB
11 > [?=>1]
12 >
13 > Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
14 > Portage tree and overlays:
15 > [0] /usr/portage
16 > [1] /usr/local/portage/layman/kde-sunset
17 > [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined
18 >
19 > How to fix it?
20
21 The error means that the package is no longer in portage or any of the
22 overlays you are using. It's probably dead.
23
24 Is it a KDE-3.5 package? If so, it will be in the kde-sunset overlay.
25
26 --
27 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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