Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Apparently, though unproven, at 23:10 on Sunday 12 December 2010, > > cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > > > >> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:35 on Sunday 12 December 2010, > >> > > >> > cov...@ccs.covici.com did opine thusly: > >> > > Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > > > On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 10:48 AM, <cov...@ccs.covici.com> wrote: > >> > > > > I have a fair number of preserved-libs, but it will not run at all > >> > > > > and gives the rather strange message: > >> > > > > Calculating dependencies... done! > >> > > > > > >> > > > > emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-tex/mplib:0". > >> > > > > (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild") > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Now I have no such package and an eix seems to indicate that there > >> > > > > is no such, so how do I get this rebuild going again? > >> > > > > > >> > > > > Thanks in advance for all your help. > >> > > > > > >> > > > > -- > >> > > > > Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question > >> > > > > is: How do > >> > > > > you spend it? > >> > > > > > >> > > > > John Covici > >> > > > > cov...@ccs.covici.com > >> > > > > >> > > > Probably searching for packages that depend on mplib, (equery) then > >> > > > emerge -C them (it's what I'd probably do - depends...) then > >> > > > re-emerge them if you still use them? Note that I'd go back to > >> > > > finding what members of the world file need all this stuff and > >> > > > emerge that with -DuN, maybe even doing a -depclean after the emerge > >> > > > -C. It's all a guess though. > >> > > > > >> > > > Seems like this sort of thing happens when a package gets dumped in > >> > > > an upgrade but somehow the ebuilds or package manager don't get > >> > > > updated or just don't work perfectly. > >> > > > > >> > > > Again, all a guess but I can usually figure it out looking at equery > >> > > > output, etc. > >> > > > >> > > Well, there was a package, but no ebuild, so I deleted the package and > >> > > its going, but someone broke something. I wish you could not delete an > >> > > ebuild if you have the package, or it would put it somewhere to prevent > >> > > this kind of thing. > >> > > >> > That will make portage store gigantic numbers of old and since upgraded > >> > versions just in case maybe you might need it perhaps. Sounds like a lot > >> > of pain for no gain. Sounds like exactly the kind of thing any decent > >> > dev will reject. > >> > > >> > Besides, you can always get the old ebuild back from the Attic, or you > >> > could copy it somewhere safe from /var/db/pkg/ before you delete it. > >> > > >> > Mark has the correct solution. mplib is not needed and was deleted. > >> > However, it's in preserved-rebuild as being used by something. In all > >> > likelyhood that something uses mplib purely optionally and you should > >> > just rebuild that something. You provided no output so no-one here knows > >> > how to fix your problem. > >> > >> There was no output, but what I sent and the only thing depended on > >> mplib was the package with no ebuild, so I guess its fixed. But > >> something seems wrong here that you should have a package and the ebuild > >> would go away like that. I am not sure of the best solution. > > > > But you *don't* have the package, or it didn't uninstall cleanly. It's not > > in > > the tree, it's not in eix, so it no longer exists. There would have been at > > least 30 days notice in $PORTDIR/profiles/package.mask that it was going > > away, > > and emerge gives output that there is a package present without an ebuild. > > > > Or maybe you deleted the ebuild yourself out of a local overlay. > > > > There's lots of ways this can happen. preserved-rebuild tracks that some > > part > > of mplib is bieng used somehow, and it told you. Now you as the human being > > get to decide how to proceed because the software cannot decide for you. > > > > The software is working as designed. What else did you expect it to do? > > > > One thing that is NOT a solution is to not delete the ebuild. That results > > in > > your tree being out of sync with upstream. That is not allowed. > > covici, > It strikes me that maybe I wasn't totally clear about this sort of fix. My > bad. > > I _think_ that if you had a totally up to date system and a recent set > of ebuilds on the system then likely none of them would depend on > mplib. (Assuming it's been dropped for some reason.) > > The issue you need to sort of get your head around is that you are > searching from some _older_, currently installed package that depends > on this dropped library. Once you know the name of that package, if > you emerge -C it then the system no longer requires it and complaints > should go away. Assuming they do then I would likely do an emerge -p > --depclean, which gets the system clean without the program you want, > then I would emerge the newest version of that program which doesn't > require mplib. > > Again, it's sort of an Easter Egg Hunt getting to all the older > programs that required the library that's been removed. There may be > more than one program that used it. > > One other possibility, I think, is that everything is OK with your > programs but some mplib executable (possibly a *.so file or something) > was left laying around and now revdep-rebuild is complaining that it > cannot fix it. That one is relatively easy as you can search, using > equery, for the package that provided it and if it's not on the system > then just delete the *.so that it's complaining about. > > Whatever, do make sure that you double check the system with > revdep-rebuild and emerge -pvDuN @world at the end to make sure your > clean. > > Hope that helps,
I think I wound up doing what you said -- there was only one package and that had no ebuild, but portage managed to unmerge it anyway and I did a full update after that, so all should be working now. Thanks. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com