[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

[Trenton Adams]

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)
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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

[PaulNM]

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
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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:30, PaulNM wrote:
>  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.

emerge --depclean doesn't clean old slots. It will keep all installed versions 
of python since at least portage requires it... emerge --prune will remove 
old slots. It won't notice if the old slots are needed though.. (Which is 
unlikely if he has run python-updater) ;) Finally if he did have python-2.3.x 
installed it should show up on `equery list python`.

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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

[Trenton Adams]

I did not know about python-updater.  Should I re-install the old
version of python again, and then run python-updater?  Right now it
complains about there not being an old version of python.

Gotta run to work for now though. :(

On 10/12/06, Bo Ørsted Andresen <bo.andresen@zlin.dk> wrote:
> On Thursday 12 October 2006 08:30, PaulNM wrote:
> >  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.
>
> emerge --depclean doesn't clean old slots. It will keep all installed versions
> of python since at least portage requires it... emerge --prune will remove
> old slots. It won't notice if the old slots are needed though.. (Which is
> unlikely if he has run python-updater) ;) Finally if he did have python-2.3.x
> installed it should show up on `equery list python`.
>
> --
> Bo Andresen
>
>
>

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Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild attempts to emerge old package

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Thursday 12 October 2006 03:23, 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".
[SNIP]

I agree that it sound weird. I think you'll have to show the full output of 
the above command if you need any more help..

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