Re: [gentoo-user] preserved-rebuild acting strangely

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

On 12/05/2013 13:29, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 12 May 2013 02:50:44 -0400, covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hi.  I am using gentoo unstable and after this last update when I tried
>>> to do emerge @preserved-rebuild I get the following:
>>
>> I didn't know Gentoo specifically made an unstable version, it's
>> generally rock solid for me.
> Buy unstable I meant ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86 ~amd64"
> 
> 
>>
>>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>>>
>>> Calculating dependencies  .... done!
>>>
>>> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "net-libs/xulrunner:1.9".
>>> (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument])
>>>
>>> I have xulrunner 2.0 installed, although it looks like nothing depends
>>> on that package, so I am not sure what is going on.  I looked at
>>> /var/lib/portage/preserved-rebuild-registrybut can't find xulrunner
>>> anywhere in that file.  How can I proceed?
>>
>> emerge -cav xulrunner
> I have no ebuilds for xulrunner at all in the tree. But I will try as
> you suggest because there seems to be nothing dependent on it.
> Well, that did something good, now its going right along.
> 
> Thanks so much -- this is a great mailing list.

xulrunner is no longer in the tree.

What I would do is run ldd on everything in lib dirs and grep for
xulrunner to find which ancient package wants it. Then rebuild that package.



-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com