On Wednesday 02 November 2005 05:30, Nick Currier wrote: > Looks like that got it guys. Thanks tons for the help.... It seems I broke > portage by running only part ~amd64 packages. revdep-rebuild found it but > it took twice to fix..... depclean wants to get rid of tons of stuff though > so I'm thinking this is a bad idea or I have bigger problems.... Kudos to > AMD64 Gentoo for the best support team in open source.
It's normal for a system that hasn't been maintained the way it should ;) 1. Look over the list of packages that would be unmerged with: # emerge --pretend depclean 2. Inject the packages that should not be removed in your world file with: # emerge --noreplace <package name> Repeats steps 1 and 2 untill you are satisfied. 3. clean the remaining packages with: # emerge --ask depclean 4. rebuild packages that were built against older/removed libaries: # revdep-rebuild --pretend (part of app-portage/gentoolkit) In order to keep your system clean in the future upgrade world like this: 1. upgrade your world, remerge packages that have a changed USE flag and upgrade deep dependencies. # emerge --ask --deep --newuse --upgrade world 2. rebuild packages that were built against older/removed libaries # revdep-rebuild --pretend If you ever remove a package do it like this: 1. remove the package # emerge --ask --unmerge package 2. remove the dependencies but always check the output. other packages might use them even though they are not a direct dependency # emerge --ask depclean 3. rebuild packages that were build against libaries you just removed # revdep-rebuild --pretend This is how I maintain all my systems. If anyone has remarks/tips I'd be glad to hear them. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
