Re: [gentoo-user] expat upgrade, kdelibs: circular problem?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On Monday 17 March 2008, brullo nulla wrote:
> >  What output do you get from 'revdep-rebuild -p -i' ?
>
> Here it is:
>
> Evaluating package order...
> Warning: Failed to resolve package order.
> Will merge in "random" order!
> Possible reasons:
> - An ebuild is no longer in the portage tree.
> - An ebuild is masked, use /etc/portage/packages.keyword
>   and/or /etc/portage/package.unmask to unmask it
> ..... done.
>   (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order)

<snip HUGE package list...>

Hmmm. I seem to recall the expat upgrade being similar for me too. 
Unless you receive good advice to the contrary, you could try doing 
what I eventually did:

emerge -avuND world
then 
emerge --skipfirst --resume
as many times as needed to get to the end. Mask and unmask stuff 
manually as required. Eventually it all ends :-) and you are left with 
a consistent system. The final test is to run:

emerge -avuND world
emerge -av --depclean
revdep-rebuild -p -i

and all three should result in nothing to do.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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