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From: Zeerak Waseem <zeerak.w@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:53:37
Message-Id: op.u6uj5gniagyv58@zeerak
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] strange error when doing emerge @preserved-rebuild by covici@ccs.covici.com
1 On Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:41:54 +0100, <covici@××××××××××.com> wrote:
2
3 > Hi. When I am trying to do an emerge @preserved-rebuild after an
4 > upgrade, I just get the following:
5 >
6 > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies... done!
9 >
10 > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "kde-base/arts:3.5".
11 >
12 > I tried a -t, but it didn't give me anything. How can I tell what is
13 > happening here?
14 >
15 > Thanks in advance for any ideas.
16 >
17
18 I'm guessing it has something to do with kde 3.5 being removed from
19 portage. Do you have the sunset overlay added? If not then it would be
20 necessary as all of kde 3.5 is going to disappear very soon (if it hasn't
21 already as emerge seems to be telling you).
22
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24 Zeerak