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From: Harm Geerts <harmgeerts@home.nl>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-amd64] Re: revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 00:06:44 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200702010006.44540.harmgeerts@home.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200701312356.36611.clip2@gmx.de>

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.
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 23:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 22:56 [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild rebuilding nonsense Dieter Ries
2007-01-31 23:06 ` Harm Geerts [this message]
2007-02-01  2:58   ` [gentoo-amd64] " Daniel Gryniewicz
2007-02-01 10:33     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-31 23:17 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-31 23:24   ` Dieter Ries
2007-01-31 23:20 ` Daiajo Tibdixious
2007-01-31 23:21   ` Daiajo Tibdixious
2007-01-31 23:35   ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-31 23:58     ` Daiajo Tibdixious

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