From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MDJv3-00083W-D9 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 15:04:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6B271E0169; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f213.google.com (mail-ew0-f213.google.com [209.85.219.213]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 291E9E0169 for ; Sun, 7 Jun 2009 15:04:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy9 with SMTP id 9so3234963ewy.34 for ; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:04:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=j0ZNs6EKw+7esZNAF/7ONFeLlBtISqpQ5rexFCnyWjY=; b=K5JwcEoXh4rB2TFr/PJothoTjuNUFcrCss+caabYO9SqZXMioqgszgJJ32C/q4yBdA Q/EKGItWqzcIRQ+dVl9QyjtXeCFIkGytV6jb7Wbu470FjNaf/zwAs5yB3nNfhN9rH0NF 0Y/tDfLzogvmtpI1TmZk9cYyTYdwkLDEKhbk0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :content-disposition:message-id; b=GlEPE/H74fb/cb3WrKpCWRLLgjDOMRLS21Y+O64XhJW03zebvWA51Ww5RJNBFAgRIh sX+cc8z7KONpEeR3cilDsZ2BfkgN+o6qKvE11Q4GgxGC3VrkPgwHPaSmUGp8L0Hwzg3m 98mTKYOqxdnUBUyT8j/Evh2GWCSJ+nI/ZRgws= Received: by 10.216.36.84 with SMTP id v62mr1981454wea.128.1244387059075; Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:04:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-210-153-123-rrdg-esr-2.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.210.153.123]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t2sm2736730gve.0.2009.06.07.08.04.17 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 07 Jun 2009 08:04:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ... Date: Sun, 7 Jun 2009 17:02:47 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.29-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) Cc: William Kenworthy References: <1244289806.15834.22.camel@rattus> <200906061923.13739.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1244338101.15834.31.camel@rattus> In-Reply-To: <1244338101.15834.31.camel@rattus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906071702.47892.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: b147f970-8bfe-4d70-9588-39945ba400c5 X-Archives-Hash: eedbfe8df25d3e94e2f6fb9551518e10 On Sunday 07 June 2009 03:28:21 William Kenworthy wrote: > > As for the OP, I can only guess what might be causing this. Let's start > > with obvious stuff: > > > > 1. Is portage the latest version for your arch? > > 2. What does revdep-rebuild return? > > 3. What is your arch, and is it a mixture of stable and ~? > > The system is quite a few years old - the original install was ~2000, > and has quite a few hardware upgrades/rebuilds in between. Current (for > at least a couple of years) cpu is amd athlon barton 2500+. > > Software is a mix of stable, ~x86 and pinned (mostly particular ~x86 at > the time) working versions to avoid some of the upgrade treadmill. Your libusb is currently latest, your portage-utils and portage are not. I honestly think that debugging this will be an exercise in futility unless you can find a reference somewhere that says which versions of which portage tools are incompatible with which other ones, and why... I'm also not sure anymore about which portage version was first to support sets. What I did was blow my top at the forced downgrade of portage at Zac's whim, and unmasked portage. Lots of troubles immediately and at once went away when I did this. I'd suggest you switch to ~arch and tolerate the upgrade treadmill. A lot of that is packages that are rapidly and often changing. If you sync and upgrade once a week or fortnight, you'll find you upgrade package X just once, not several times during that period. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com