lee wrote: > Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > >> lee wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> how is it possible that a package is installed which is not available? >>> >>> >>> eix glibmm >>> [?] dev-cpp/glibmm >>> Verfügbare Versionen: (2) 2.44.0 2.46.4 2.48.1 ~2.50.0 >>> {debug doc examples test ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" >>> ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"} >>> Installierte Versionen: 2.50.1(2)(16:58:00 24.04.2017)(-debug -doc >>> -test ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" >>> ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32") >>> Startseite: http://www.gtkmm.org >>> Beschreibung: C++ interface for glib2 >>> >>> >>> 2.50.1(2) appears to be installed but is not available. >>> >>> >> Usually when you see that, it was removed from the tree. Some packages >> are upgraded in the tree then a little while later, older versions are >> removed from the tree. I've seen that several times. There may be >> other reasons for that but that is the one I see quite often. > You mean one of the not-so-old version was removed? That could be.
I guess it depends on how the maintainer does it. I've seen a few times when they release a minor update that fixes something serious and then remove the old one right away or very shortly after. Some maintainers leave older versions in the tree for quite a while. I stopped scratching my head over it a long time ago. lol > >> By the way, if for some reason you have to have that version, you can >> grab the ebuild and put it in a local overlay. Make sure you don't let >> that get updated/removed before you do that tho. > I don't know, I only came across it when trying to get mysql-workbench > to compile. I don't know why it's installed. > I have it installed here as well. This is what pulls it in here: root@fireball / # equery d glibmm * These packages depend on glibmm: dev-cpp/atkmm-2.24.2 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.46.2:2[doc?,abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]) dev-cpp/gtkmm-2.24.5 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.34.1:2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]) dev-cpp/pangomm-2.40.1 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.48.0:2[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]) sys-block/gparted-0.27.0 (>=dev-cpp/glibmm-2.14:2) root@fireball / # It seems several packages here pull it in. >> Hope that helps. > ty :) > >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> >> Welcome. Dale :-) :-)