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On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 18:06 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> Sorry. I should have started that a number of the failures have come |
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> while doing revdep-rebuild. One seemingly large problem is that |
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> revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild packages that are no longer in portage |
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> so you have to remove those from the rebuild or attempt to change |
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> revision numbers by hand on the fly in the long command that |
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> revdep-rebuild -p creates. That's been a mess and not the way I know |
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> the portage developers want me to maintain the system. |
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-X, -X, again I say -X! |
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with ~x86 revdep-rebuild, this behaviour is default, but most likely |
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with your revdep-rebuild, you can specify -X to get the latest version |
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of the packages. Otherwise it will try and use the currently installed |
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version, which isn't what you want when in the middle of a large |
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upgrade! |
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HTH, |
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Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au> |
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Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject |
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-- the actual enemy is the unknown. |
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-- Thomas Mann |
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