[gentoo-user] Re: depclean stopped working

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 17/04/12 18:10, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:01:43 +0300
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.com>  wrote:
>
>> emerge --depclean seems to have bugged out for me:
>>
>>    * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
>>    * the following required packages not being installed:
>>    *
>>    *   =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8* pulled in by:
>>    *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-8.0.2.591240
>>    *
>>    *   dev-libs/openssl:0.9.8 pulled in by:
>>    *     www-client/google-chrome-19.0.1084.24_beta131971
>>
>> It says to do a "emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y
>> @world". Which is what I just did to begin with (and running it again
>> doesn't result in anything getting emerged.)
>>
>> It also says:
>>
>>    * Also, note that it may be necessary to manually uninstall
>>    * packages that no longer exist in the portage tree, since it may
>>    * not be possible to satisfy their dependencies.
>>
>> However, dev-libs/openssl is installed and seems to be in the tree:
>>
>> $ eix -e dev-libs/openssl
>> [I] dev-libs/openssl
>>        Available versions:
>>           (0.9.8) 0.9.8r (~)0.9.8s 0.9.8s-r1 0.9.8t 0.9.8u
>>           (0)     1.0.0d 1.0.0e (~)1.0.0e-r1 (~)1.0.0f 1.0.0f-r1
>> 1.0.0g 1.0.0h **1.0.1
>>           {{bindist gmp kerberos rfc3779 sse2 static-libs test vanilla
>> zlib}} Installed versions:  0.9.8u(0.9.8)(22:32:12 12/03/12)(sse2
>> zlib -bindist -gmp -kerberos -test) 1.0.0h(22:33:20 12/03/12)(sse2
>> zlib -bindist -gmp -kerberos -rfc3779 -static-libs -test)
>>
>>
>
> I think you should file a bug against www-client/google-chrome
>
> It wants the exact version dev-libs/openssl:0.9.8 but the oldest in
> portage is dev-libs/openssl:0.9.8r
>
> Chances are the dev simply left off the version suffix by accident

That can't be it.  There's a wildcard at the end:

   =dev-libs/openssl-0.9.8*

which should match 0.9.8u.