[gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

[gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

[Alan McKinnon]

portage-2.2.0_alpha43 wants to remerge gst-plugins-base over and over.

It gets correctly merged with a world update but still shows up with 
every world update thereafter. The package is not in world, has a long 
(20+) list of things that DEPEND on it, and no related USE flags have 
changed:

[nomerge       ] media-video/kmplayer-0.11.2c  USE="cairo expat 
handbook npp (-aqua) -debug (-kdeenablefinal)" LINGUAS="en_GB -cs -da 
-de -el -es -et -fr -ga -gl -it -ja -km -ku -lt -lv -mai -nb -nds -nl 
-nn -pl -pt -pt_BR -ro -ru -sk -sv -tr -uk -zh_CN -zh_TW"                                                                                                                                                                                                                   
[nomerge       ]  media-libs/phonon-4.5.0  USE="gstreamer vlc xine (-
aqua) -debug -pulseaudio" 
[nomerge       ]   media-libs/phonon-gstreamer-4.5.1  USE="alsa -
debug" 
[nomerge       ]    media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r6  USE="X a52 
aac alsa dv dvb dvd ffmpeg flac lame mp3 mpeg musepack ogg theora v4l2 
vcd vorbis vpx wavpack xv -esd -mythtv -oss -pulseaudio -taglib" 
[nomerge       ]     media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.10.35 
[ebuild   R    ]      media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35  USE="orc (-
introspection) -nls" 0 kB

I get the same results using --newuse and --changed-use, and 
downgrading portage to 2.2.0_alpha41 makes no difference either. 
@preserved-rebuild, revdep-rebuild also make no difference.

Anyone else seeing this?



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:28:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> portage-2.2.0_alpha43 wants to remerge gst-plugins-base over and over.

> [ebuild   R    ]      media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35  USE="orc (-
> introspection) -nls" 0 kB

Could it be related to https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373773 ?


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Nixon's Principal: If 2 wrongs don't make a right, try 3.

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 04 July 2011 10:12:14 Neil Bothwick did opine thusly:
> On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:28:30 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > portage-2.2.0_alpha43 wants to remerge gst-plugins-base over and
> > over.
> > 
> > [ebuild   R    ]      media-libs/gst-plugins-base-0.10.35 
> > USE="orc (- introspection) -nls" 0 kB
> 
> Could it be related to
> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=373773 ?


<grrrr>

Right, where's my bloody shotgun?

I looked at that bug earlier this morning and thought "Nah, how can 
that be related?" Throwing shit randomly at walls in the hope some of 
it might stick isn't my usual troubleshooting technique so I left it 
and looked in other more obvious places.

But it cured it, and now I'm still wondering 

"How can that be related?"

p.s. your tip earlier about --changed-use also sorted out this 
weekend's -hardened clusterfuck with world updates. Thanks :-)



-- 
alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 04 Jul 2011 11:49:05 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> I looked at that bug earlier this morning and thought "Nah, how can 
> that be related?" Throwing shit randomly at walls in the hope some of 
> it might stick isn't my usual troubleshooting technique so I left it 
> and looked in other more obvious places.

Rule 2: If the low hanging fruit doesn't fix it, start throwing shit :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

IBM - Incredibly Bastardized Multitasking...

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Re: [gentoo-user] portage continually wants to remerge gst-plugins-base

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday 04 July 2011 10:12:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> Nixon's Principal: If 2 wrongs don't make a right, try 3.

If I were a pedantic old bastard (etc...)

s/Principal/Principle/

-- 
Rgds
Peter