James writes:
> Upon a routine upgrade, I followed up with revdep-rebuild -p.
> The problem is the system wants to rebuild versions of packages
> that are very old. 'equery depengs <package> reveals that nothing
> is dependent of the first few packages.
[...]
>
> I'm open to suggestions as to how to clean up this mess:
>
> Here is the packages that 'revdep-rebuild -p' wanted to rebuild:
>
> emerge --oneshot -p =media-libs/gst-plugins-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-esd-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-xvideo-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-vorbis-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-ogg-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-alsa-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-oss-0.8.11
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-mad-0.8.11
>
> equery depends =media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11
> [ Searching for packages depending on
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-flac-0.8.11... ] <nothing returned>
>
> equery depends =media-plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.11
> [ Searching for packages depending on
> =media-plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.11... ] !!! Warning: No packages found
> matching =media-plugins/gst-plugins-0.8.11
>
>
> Ideas on fixing this are most welcome.
I just omit the = and the release number in that cases.
Does "equery depends media-plugins/gst-plugins" give anything? I guess not,
otherwise these tools would have already been upgraded with "emerge -aDu
world". Maybe you do not need them anyway, and "emerge -a --depclean" would
remove them.
Wonko
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