Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
On 11:52 Wed 30 Mar , Grant wrote: I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and fixpackages fit into all of this? I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with some tricky copying of missing libs. I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. Bill Roberts pgpdifM03FL6i.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and fixpackages fit into all of this? I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with some tricky copying of missing libs. I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. Bill Roberts Why would something like that happen? It seems like Gentoo has a logical system for keeping everything sane. - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
On 06:30 Thu 31 Mar , Grant wrote: I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and fixpackages fit into all of this? I completely hosed my system once with 'emerge --depclean', and nearly whacked it a second time. I only brought it back from the brink with some tricky copying of missing libs. I've learned to be a little less tidy, my machine loves me for it. Bill Roberts Why would something like that happen? It seems like Gentoo has a logical system for keeping everything sane. Last time I nearly whacked my machine, 'emerge --depclean'said I could get rid of of attr and acl. I figured I was using neither attr nor acl, I would 'merge -C' them. If you do a 'equery depends attr', you'll find coreutils depends on it, as well at acl. Without coreutils, you can forget emerging and a many basic functions of the machine. Long story short, I had a copy of the missing libraries in an another install directory, managed to copy them to the right directory, and saved dozens and dozens of hours it would have taken my to reconstitute my machine. You do get a warning, and heed it well. Bill Roberts pgpLSQyyDLM7p.pgp Description: PGP signature
[gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
I've neglected to update any packages since a nasty case of the new package blues a while ago, but in the last few days I've gotten back on top of it. I'm up to date with 'emerge -Du world' and I'd like to give 'emerge --depclean' a go, but I've read that it can be tricky. My world file is correct, should I try it? How do revdep-rebuild and fixpackages fit into all of this? - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
Hi there, May I suggest that you run emerge --depclean -vp to see what will be removed, maybe you'll see that you don't need to run this after all. The message that comes up when doing this is very descriptive on what to do if a package suddenly breaks because of a missing library. AFAIK revdep-rebuild will get you all those packages that are needed but missing. I have not yest used fixpackages Regards, -AR I'm having some trouble with revdep-rebuild. I read the suggestions below but I can't quite decipher them. I tried to emerge lib-compat manually but it didn't help. All prepared. Starting rebuild... emerge --oneshot --nodeps =media-libs/xine-lib-1_rc8-r1 =sys-libs/lib-compat-1.3 =xfce-extra/xfce4-fsguard-0.2.0 .. Calculating dependencies - emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy =sys-libs/lib-compat-1.3. Result is not OK, you have following choices: - if emerge failed during build, fix the problems and re-run revdep-rebuild or - use -X or --package-names as first argument (try to rebuild package, not exact ebuild - ignores SLOT!) or - set ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~your platform and/or /etc/portage/package.unmask (and remove /root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order to be evaluated again) or - modify the above emerge command and run it manually or - compile or unmerge unsatisfied packages manually, remove temporary files and try again (you can edit package/ebuild list first) - Grant -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --depclean
On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 15:36:15 -0500, A. R. wrote: May I suggest that you run emerge --depclean -vp to see what will be removed, maybe you'll see that you don't need to run this after all. Before you do that, run emerge world -uavD --newuse. Changed USE flags are the usual cause of depclean wanting to do anything unwelcome. -- Neil Bothwick WinErr 01E: Timing error - Please wait. And wait. And wait. And wait. pgpCMK1YZPJlF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean
Am Freitag, 16. April 2004 18:11 schrieb Peter van Eck: hi peter, please set the correct date, we haven't 16. April 2004. it's not so funny to have your mails on top till 16. April 2004 christian -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-user] emerge depclean
Hi, I have run into the following problem trying to emerge gnome emerging gnome came to a halt when emerging the package openjade My system (Pentium 200 MMX) get exhausted when compiling that package meaning I can't login on any of the console tty's and looged in shells seem to be stuck. I aborted the emerge gnome ( CTRL-C) I tried installing the binary package (gnome) This failed with error : package gnome masked. Which it isn't on CD . I took the brave step to run emerge depclean and now the half of my system has vanished. Most of the basic OS commands are gone like ls, rm. What should I do ? untar stage 3 is what I think but is that a wise thing to do ?? thanks in advance for any helpful reply ... rgds, Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean
Peter van Eck wrote: Hi, I have run into the following problem trying to emerge gnome emerging gnome came to a halt when emerging the package openjade My system (Pentium 200 MMX) get exhausted when compiling that package meaning I can't login on any of the console tty's and looged in shells seem to be stuck. I aborted the emerge gnome ( CTRL-C) I tried installing the binary package (gnome) This failed with error : package gnome masked. Which it isn't on CD . I took the brave step to run emerge depclean and now the half of my system has vanished. Most of the basic OS commands are gone like ls, rm. What should I do ? untar stage 3 is what I think but is that a wise thing to do ?? thanks in advance for any helpful reply ... First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, use 'dep-clean -U'. As for fixing your system, try 'emerge -u system'. That should probably merge the missing packages. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean
On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Peter van Eck wrote: Hi, I have run into the following problem trying to emerge gnome emerging gnome came to a halt when emerging the package openjade My system (Pentium 200 MMX) get exhausted when compiling that package meaning I can't login on any of the console tty's and looged in shells seem to be stuck. I aborted the emerge gnome ( CTRL-C) I tried installing the binary package (gnome) This failed with error : package gnome masked. Which it isn't on CD . I took the brave step to run emerge depclean and now the half of my system has vanished. Most of the basic OS commands are gone like ls, rm. What should I do ? untar stage 3 is what I think but is that a wise thing to do ?? thanks in advance for any helpful reply ... First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, use 'dep-clean -U'. As for fixing your system, try 'emerge -u system'. That should probably merge the missing packages. I take it 'dep-clean -U' is syntax input parameter for emerge command thanks, Peter -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:03, gabriel wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote: First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, use 'dep-clean -U'. maybe a stupid question, but if emerge depclean is a bad thing to use, then why is it there? or at the very least marked with developer use only? sauron root # emerge depclean *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : Packages in the list that are desired may be added *** WARNING *** : directly to the world file to cause them to be ignored *** WARNING *** : by depclean and maintained in the future. BREAKAGES DUE *** WARNING *** : TO UNMERGING AN ==IN-USE LIBRARY== MAY BE REPAIRED BY *** WARNING *** : MERGING *** THE PACKAGE THAT COMPLAINS *** ABOUT THE *** WARNING *** : MISSING LIBRARY. Waiting 10 seconds before starting... (Control-C to abort)... Depclean in: 10 9 sauron root # Warning enough I think :) - -- Mike Williams -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/eZxaInuLMrk7bIwRAuIIAJ9IIR5CktalVgkUiv+zBsT4v/rYLQCeLqPc as6tvLtBoS4Cv8a8C/CCc60= =Z5x0 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean
Peter van Eck wrote: On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Peter van Eck wrote: Hi, I have run into the following problem trying to emerge gnome emerging gnome came to a halt when emerging the package openjade My system (Pentium 200 MMX) get exhausted when compiling that package meaning I can't login on any of the console tty's and looged in shells seem to be stuck. I aborted the emerge gnome ( CTRL-C) I tried installing the binary package (gnome) This failed with error : package gnome masked. Which it isn't on CD . I took the brave step to run emerge depclean and now the half of my system has vanished. Most of the basic OS commands are gone like ls, rm. What should I do ? untar stage 3 is what I think but is that a wise thing to do ?? thanks in advance for any helpful reply ... First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, use 'dep-clean -U'. As for fixing your system, try 'emerge -u system'. That should probably merge the missing packages. I take it 'dep-clean -U' is syntax input parameter for emerge command No, dep-clean is a separate program that is included with gentoolkit. If you don't already have it installed, try 'emerge gentoolkit'. -- Andrew Gaffney -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] emerge depclean
On 30 Sep 2003, at 4:08 pm, Mike Williams wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 30 September 2003 16:03, gabriel wrote: On Tue, 2003-09-30 at 10:54, Andrew Gaffney wrote: First of all, never, never, never user 'emerge depclean'. In the future, use 'dep-clean -U'. maybe a stupid question, but if emerge depclean is a bad thing to use, then why is it there? or at the very least marked with developer use only? sauron root # emerge depclean *** WARNING *** : DEPCLEAN CAN SERIOUSLY IMPAIR YOUR SYSTEM. USE CAUTION. *** WARNING *** : (Cancel: CONTROL-C) -- ALWAYS VERIFY ALL PACKAGES IN THE *** WARNING *** : CANDIDATE LIST FOR SANITY BEFORE ALLOWING DEPCLEAN TO *** WARNING *** : UNMERGE ANY PACKAGES. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : USE FLAGS MAY HAVE AN EXTREME EFFECT ON THE OUTPUT. *** WARNING *** : SOME LIBRARIES MAY BE USED BY PACKAGES BUT ARE NOT *** WARNING *** : CONSIDERED TO BE A DEPEND DUE TO USE FLAG SETTINGS. *** WARNING *** : *** WARNING *** : ... BREAKAGES DUE *** WARNING *** : TO UNMERGING AN ==IN-USE LIBRARY== MAY BE REPAIRED BY *** WARNING *** : MERGING *** THE PACKAGE THAT COMPLAINS *** ABOUT THE *** WARNING *** : MISSING LIBRARY. I've never had a problem, I don't think, with `emerge -depclean`. But then I'd always -p read the output first. The second paragraph quoted above explains why some packages might have a problem, and the last paragraph explains how to fix it if some do. I don't see why this justifies the emphatic never, never, never use depclean instruction. if course, I'm not familiar with `dep-clean`, which might be MUCH better for all I know. Stroller. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
