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Nick Fortino wrote: |
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> John P. Burkett wrote: |
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>> Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response |
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>> the included the following lines: |
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>> * All prepared. Starting rebuild |
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>> emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 |
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>> gnome-base/gnome-panel:0 |
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>> kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5 |
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>> mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0 |
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>> media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad:0.8 |
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>> media-plugins/xmms-alsa:0 |
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>> media-plugins/xmms-vorbis:0 |
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>> media-video/totem:0 |
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>> .......... |
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>> Calculating dependencies... done! |
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>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy |
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>> "mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0". |
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>> After doing emerge -C evolution, I redid revdep-rebuild but got the same |
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>> response. After doing emerge evolution, I again redid revdep-rebuild, |
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>> with the same results. |
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>> Suggestions for how to successfully run revdep-rebuild would be most |
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>> welcome. I'm willing to sacrifice evolution if that would help. |
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> Hmm, somehow portage got the idea there is a package named |
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> mail-client/-MERGING-evolution, which is false. |
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Nick, thank you for the diagnosis. |
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If you are lucky: |
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> emerge -avC mail-client/-MERGING-evolution |
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The systems's response to this was |
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>>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: |
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--- Couldn't find 'mail-client/-MERGING-evolution' to unmerge. |
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>>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge |
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> Although that could fail, as package names aren't supposed to start with |
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> -, so who knows what portage does with it. Next shot, clear out anything |
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> you don't need (make sure to check the output, although these days this |
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> command is safe unless you have done something strange). |
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> emerge -av --depclean |
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To see what this might do, I tried emerge --pretend -av --depclean. |
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The response identified 163 packages to be removed, none of which appear |
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to be related to mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0. |
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> |
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> Final shot is to play around in /var/db/pkg. This is where portage keeps |
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> track of what is installed, and how, so messing around here is |
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> inherently unsafe. I have my suspicions as to the correct thing to do |
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> here, but I won't post it since I'm not terribly sure. Someone with more |
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> expertise could help here, but I suspect either method 1 or 2 will work. |
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In /var/db/pkg I found a directory mail-client/-MERGING-evolution-2.12.1 |
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containing the following files |
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CATEGORY COUNTER FEATURES LICENSE SLOT |
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repository |
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CBUILD CXXFLAGS HOMEPAGE NEEDED SRC_URI |
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CFLAGS DEPEND INHERITED PDEPEND USE |
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CHOST DESCRIPTION IUSE PF environment.bz2 |
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CONTENTS EAPI KEYWORDS RDEPEND evolution-2.12.1.ebuild |
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Unsure what to do next, I'd be grateful for suggestions. |
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-John |
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> Nick |
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John P. Burkett |
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Department of Economics |
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University of Rhode Island |
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Kingston, RI 02881-0808 |
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