From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GXu9c-00070I-2l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:34:52 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9C6WlYF014770; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:32:47 GMT Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [63.240.77.82]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9C6UeQS031768 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:30:41 GMT Received: from [192.168.1.40] (c-69-141-3-197.hsd1.pa.comcast.net[69.141.3.197]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20061012063035012002ehe3e>; Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:30:39 +0000 Message-ID: <452DE107.4010909@paulscrap.com> Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 02:30:31 -0400 From: PaulNM User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060928) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package References: <9b1675090610111823t650534cajaf81280c16934243@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <9b1675090610111823t650534cajaf81280c16934243@mail.gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: cfbb16b0-e867-4d16-8ccb-695ec1baa2d9 X-Archives-Hash: 01b74a1be3695753f9d6554af6859db3 Trenton Adams wrote: > Why does revdep-rebuild try and update packages that do not exist? Is > this a bug, or am I missing something? > > # revdep-rebuild --library libstdc++.so.5 -- -p -v 2>&1 > ... > Calculating dependencies / > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=dev-lang/python-2.3.5". > > > # equery list python > [ Searching for package 'python' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] dev-lang/python-2.4.3-r4 (2.4) > [I--] [ ] dev-python/python-fchksum-1.7.1 (0) It looks like an old version of python is still on your system from when there was an ebuild for it. I'd suggest "emerge -p --depclean" to see if it would remove it. PaulNM -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list