Re: [gentoo-user] My emerge @preserved-rebuild is wedged. Help, please!

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Michael.

Sorry it's taken me so long to reply.  Just after I first posted, I
updated myrsystem,2with which libssl-1.1.1w got unmerged.  So my qmail
stopped working.  I've now reinstalled and configured it.

On Mon, Apr 01, 2024 at 16:38:57 +0100, Michael wrote:
> On Monday, 1 April 2024 16:12:51 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > Hello, Gentoo.
> > 
> > I'm trying to do
> > 
> >     # emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
> > 
> > ..  For this purpose, I created a temporary repository, filling it with
> > ancient ebuilds recovered from /var/db/pkg.

> I may be missing something, but why are you doing this?

My @preserved-rebuild had been broken for months.  It needed sorting out
before migrating to the new profile.

> Why don't you run @world update first, which will bring your system to a 
> stable state, before you proceed with anything else, e.g. migrating to profile 
> 23.0?

@world updates didn't resolve the problem with @p-r.  But Jack's
suggestion has worked for me.

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).