Re: [gentoo-user] Use and removal of binary packages

["Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman@gmail.com>]

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On 6/13/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
> On 6/13/06, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Something about this is just not clicking with me.  I restored my backup
> to
> > an empty directory, chrooted to that directory, ran quickpkg on some of
> the
> > packages I've been trying to re-emerge, and was feeling good.  But...
> >
> > I got out of chroot, copied these to $PKGDIR (/usr/portage/packages)
> like
> > the other packages there, and tried to emerge.  No joy.  Examples of
> > what I tried:
> > > treat Backups # emerge -v --usepkgonly =glib-1.2.10-r5
> > > Calculating dependencies
> > > !!! There are no packages available to satisfy: "=glib-1.2.10-r5"
> > > !!! Either add a suitable binary package or compile from an ebuild.
>
> Did you copy the entire PKGDIR heirarchy?  It normally looks something
> like:
>
> $PKGDIR/All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
> ...
> $PKGDIR/dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2 -> ../All/glib-1.2.10-r5.tbz2
>
> If you just copied the 'All' directory, without the symlinks, this
> could account for the behavior you are seeing.
>
> -Richard


Okay, that helped.  But not as much as I had hoped.

Now I get:

> treat dev-libs # emerge -avk =glib-1.2.10-r5
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies -
> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "virtual/glibc".
> (dependency required by "dev-libs/glib-1.2.10-r5" [binary])
>
> treat dev-libs #

So it sees that it has the glib package, but is still unwilling to emerge it
because of something else I need to do.  But I don't know how to find
out what to do about this virtual.  In /var/cache/edb/virtuals, I have

> virtual/glibc sys-libs/glibc
>
and I have 2.3.6-r3 installed:

> sys-libs/glibc
>      Available versions:  [P]2.2.5-r10 [P]2.3.2-r12 2.3.3.20040420-r2~2.3.4.20040619-r2
> 2.3.4.20040808-r1 2.3.4.20041102-r1 *2.3.4.20041102-r2 ~2.3.4.20050125-r1
> 2.3.5 2.3.5-r1 2.3.5-r2 2.3.5-r3 *2.3.6 *2.3.6-r1 ~2.3.6-r2 2.3.6-r3~2.3.6-r4 ~2.4-r1 ~2.4-r2 ~2.4-r3
>      Installed:           2.3.6-r3
>      Homepage:            http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/libc.html
>      Description:         GNU libc6 (also called glibc2) C library
>
>
++ kevin




-- 
Kevin O'Gorman, PhD

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