Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense

[Daniel Gryniewicz <dang@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 00:06 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Dieter Ries wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild
> > afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output:
> >
> > All prepared. Starting rebuild...
> > emerge --oneshot  =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2
> > =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5
> > =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1
> > =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1
> > ..........
> > Calculating dependencies
> > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2".
> >
> >
> > revdep-rebuild failed to emerge all packages
> >
> > so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist???
> 
> Because revdep-rebuild always merges the exact same version.
> Otherwise you'd have a lot of trouble rebuilding/detecting broken slotted 
> packages.
> 
> And because it makes more sense to force manual interaction then creating a 
> broken tool. e.g. emerge gnome-base/gnome-libs yourself.

Consider revdep-rebuild -X, which will merge the newest version of the
package, rather then the exact version.

That said, gnome-libs is gone from the tree.  All you can do is remove
it.

Daniel

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