On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 00:06 +0100, Harm Geerts wrote: > On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Dieter Ries wrote: > > Hi, > > > > on my gentoo server box i did an emerge --depclean and revdep-rebuild > > afterwards, but now, revdep rebuild gives me the following output: > > > > All prepared. Starting rebuild... > > emerge --oneshot =gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2 =kde-base/kdepim-3.5.5-r2 > > =media-gfx/gimp-2.2.12 =media-gfx/imagemagick-6.3.0.5 > > =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5 =media-video/mplayer-1.0_rc1 > > =x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.2-r1 > > .......... > > Calculating dependencies > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "=gnome-base/gnome-libs-1.4.2". > > > > > > revdep-rebuild failed to emerge all packages > > > > so why would revdep-rebuild emerge ebuilds which don't exist??? > > Because revdep-rebuild always merges the exact same version. > Otherwise you'd have a lot of trouble rebuilding/detecting broken slotted > packages. > > And because it makes more sense to force manual interaction then creating a > broken tool. e.g. emerge gnome-base/gnome-libs yourself.
Consider revdep-rebuild -X, which will merge the newest version of the package, rather then the exact version. That said, gnome-libs is gone from the tree. All you can do is remove it. Daniel -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
