On Sunday 31 December 2006 00:59, Daniel D Jones wrote: > On Friday 29 December 2006 09:25, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge -s gnome-icon-theme > > Searching... > > [ Results for search key : gnome-icon-theme ] > > [ Applications found : 1 ] > > > > * x11-themes/gnome-icon-theme > > Latest version available: 2.16.1 > > Latest version installed: 2.16.1 > > ... > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge gnome-applets > > Emerging (1 of 1) gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.16.2 to > > ... > > > checking for GIT... configure: error: Package requirements > > (gnome-icon-theme >= 2.15.91) were not met: > > Requested 'gnome-icon-theme >= 2.15.91' but version of gnome-icon-theme > > is 2.10.1 > > > > Something is confused somewhere about the version of gnome-icon-theme > > installed. I've resynced and reemerged gnome-icon-theme with no success. > > Any suggestions? > > It appears no one has any suggestions. Can someone perhaps tell me how > portage goes about determining the installed version to give me a direction > to start trying to figure this out.
This isn't exactly portage determining the installed version of gnome-icon-theme. It's the configure script of gnome-applets which is unaware of the existance of portage checking the environment before the actual compile. It uses the return value of: # pkg-config --exists --print-errors "gnome-icon-theme >= 2.15.91" to determine whether it's requirement is fulfilled. Maybe you have some orphaned pkg-config file (.pc) as Kent suggests. The output of e.g.: # pkg-config --debug --modversion gnome-icon-theme 2>&1 | grep gnome-icon-theme will tell you where the .pc file is. If you have app-portage/gentoolkit installed you can use `equery belongs $FILE` to see if it's orphaned (i.e. if it belongs to no package.). Orphaned files like that can be safely deleted. HtH. -- Bo Andresen
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