[gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild never seems to "work"

[Remy Blank]

Daevid Vincent wrote:
> vmware ~ # revdep-rebuild --help
> Usage: /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild [OPTIONS] [--] [EMERGE_OPTIONS]

(snip)

> I've tried it this way:
> 	revdep-rebuild -Xav
> 	revdep-rebuild -av --package-names
> 	revdep-rebuild -av -X --package-names

I'm not quite sure, but you might want to try this:

  revdep-rebuild -X -av

Note that, according to the usage message, revdep-rebuild options should
be first, and *separate* from emerge options. This is due to the way
revdep-rebuild (a shell script) parses its command line: as soon as it
finds an option it doesn't know, it passes it to emerge. Your first line
was quite close, but revdep-rebuild doesn't allow combined options (i.e.
-Xav instead of -X -a -v).

HTH.
-- Remy


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