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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.4 cruft
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:35:57
Message-Id: 200703171329.06965.michaelkintzios@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Removing KDE 3.4 cruft by Harm Geerts
1 On Saturday 17 March 2007 13:07, Harm Geerts wrote:
2 > On Saturday 17 March 2007, Mick wrote:
3 > > Hi All,
4 > >
5 > > I am trying to unmerge KDE 3.4 from a machine which has been running
6 > > KDE 3.5 for sometime now and I get this error from one of the
7 > > packages:
8 > > ==============================
9 > >
10 > > >>> Unmerging kde-base/libksirtet-3.4.3...
11 > >
12 > > !!! ERROR: kde-base/libksirtet-3.4.3 failed.
13 > > Call stack:
14 > > ebuild.sh, line 1511: Called source
15 > > '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/libksirtet-3.4.3/libksirtet-3.4.3.ebuild'
16 > > libksirtet-3.4.3.ebuild, line 7: Called inherit 'kde-meta'
17 > > ebuild.sh, line 1256: Called qa_source
18 > > '/usr/portage/eclass/kde-meta.eclass' ebuild.sh, line 28: Called source
19 > > '/usr/portage/eclass/kde-meta.eclass' kde-meta.eclass, line 116: Called
20 > > get-parent-package 'kde-base/libksirtet' kde-functions.eclass, line 323:
21 > > Called die
22 > >
23 > > !!! Package not found in KDE_DERIVATION_MAP, please report bug
24 > > !!! If you need support, post the topmost build error, and the call
25 > > stack if relevant.
26 > > !!! A complete build log is located at
27 > > '/var/log/portage/kde-base:libksirtet-3.4.3:20070317-115315.log'.
28 > >
29 > > !!! FAILED prerm: 1
30 > >
31 > > A removal phase of the 'kde-base/libksirtet-3.4.3' package has failed
32 > > with exit value 1. The problem occurred while executing the ebuild
33 > > located at
34 > > '/var/db/pkg/kde-base/libksirtet-3.4.3/libksirtet-3.4.3.ebuild'. If
35 > > necessary, manually remove the ebuild in order to skip the execution of
36 > > removal phases.
37 > > ==============================
38 > >
39 > > I don't think that I want to skip the removal phases - after all that
40 > > why I am trying to remove KDE 3.4. What shall I do?
41 > > --
42 > > Regards,
43 > > Mick
44 >
45 > There has been a cleanup of KDE_DERIVATION_MAP just 12 days ago which
46 > prevents you from unmerging this ebuild. You can workaround it by replacing
47 > your /usr/portage/eclass/kde-functions.eclass with the old version from
48 > cvs[1]
49 >
50 > It is likely more people will trip over this so you might want to report
51 > this as a bug.
52 >
53 > [1]
54 > http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/*checkout*/gentoo-x86/eclass/kde-funct
55 >ions.eclass?rev=1.143
56
57 Thank you both!
58 --
59 Regards,
60 Mick

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