Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good?

["Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 10:07 AM, James Ausmus <james.ausmus@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Right now I'm seeing that @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild want
>> to do different things. revdep-rebuild is rebuilding nss which may or
>> may not fail. @preserved-rebuild wanted to rebuild eveolution which
>> did fail.
>
> I would suggest performing the revdep-rebuild first, then doing the
> @preserved-rebuild - if revdep-rebuild is coming up with broken packages,
> those broken packages can actually prevent other packages (such as
> evolution) from building properly.
> -James
>

We'll see how it works out. I've done the revdep-rebuild.
@preserved-rebuild failed last night but is running again. If it
continues to fail I'll file a bug report.

I don't use evolution. It's just caught up in the emerge gnome stuff
and the gnome-light construct stopped working a while back so
evolution has been there not causing trouble (other than build
time/disk space) until now.

- Mark