On Monday 17 September 2007, Mike Williams wrote: > On Monday 17 September 2007 15:33:54 Mick wrote: > > This is how I understood that is should work too. If for what ever > > reason it doesn't rebuild the above packages itself, it should either say > > why (e.g. keyword masked, Blocked, not in portage, etc.) and, or pass it > > on to me to emerge/unmerge manually as required. I thought that > > invariably this is how portage behave, hence this thread to resolve my > > confusion. Are we in agreement that there is something wrong on this > > occasion - should I file a bug? Or a 'feature request? Or wait until it > > happens again? > > Reading the full output you posted, I suspect I see the problem. > # revdep-rebuild -X -p -v > should be > # revdep-rebuild -X -- -p -v > > The revdep-rebuild help doesn't say it does anything with a -p arguement to > itself, but it may well do. The -- is a separator between revdep-rebuild > arguements, and arguements it passes to emerge.
Hmm, I believe that I tried it without the -p -v, just with the -X and the result was the same. I think that the confusion arose from the multi-slotted media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss. -- Regards, Mick
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