Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 06 June 2009 23:10:40 walt wrote:
>   
>> Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>     
>>> ...
>>> You will notice that after running "emerge @preserved-rebuild",
>>> revdep-rebuild almost invariably returns null results...
>>>       
>> I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but now:
>>
>> #emerge @preserved-rebuild
>> !!! '@preserved-rebuild' is not a valid package atom.
>>     
>
> That looks like a portage version that does not support sets - it doesn't seem 
> to know what '@' means.
>
> Did you downgrade portage?
>   

Why not post what version of portage you are using?  emerge --info
should do that.

>
>   
>> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details.
>>
>> Would it work if I had any 'preserved' packages on the machine?
>>     
>
> If the set is empty, the error is something along the lines of "set has no 
> members" or words to that effect
>
>
>   

Looks something like this:

root@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild
emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set
emerge: no targets left after set expansion
root@smoker / #

Dale

:-)  :-)