Nick Fortino wrote: > John P. Burkett wrote: >> Doing revdep-rebuild on an amd64 machine, I received a response >> the included the following lines: >> * All prepared. Starting rebuild >> emerge --oneshot app-text/xpdf:0 >> gnome-base/gnome-panel:0 >> kde-base/kdegraphics:3.5 >> mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0 >> media-plugins/gst-plugins-faad:0.8 >> media-plugins/xmms-alsa:0 >> media-plugins/xmms-vorbis:0 >> media-video/totem:0 >> .......... >> Calculating dependencies... done! >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy >> "mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0". >> >> After doing emerge -C evolution, I redid revdep-rebuild but got the same >> response. After doing emerge evolution, I again redid revdep-rebuild, >> with the same results. >> >> Suggestions for how to successfully run revdep-rebuild would be most >> welcome. I'm willing to sacrifice evolution if that would help. >> >> > Hmm, somehow portage got the idea there is a package named > mail-client/-MERGING-evolution, which is false. Nick, thank you for the diagnosis. If you are lucky: > emerge -avC mail-client/-MERGING-evolution The systems's response to this was >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: --- Couldn't find 'mail-client/-MERGING-evolution' to unmerge. >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge
> > Although that could fail, as package names aren't supposed to start with > -, so who knows what portage does with it. Next shot, clear out anything > you don't need (make sure to check the output, although these days this > command is safe unless you have done something strange). > emerge -av --depclean To see what this might do, I tried emerge --pretend -av --depclean. The response identified 163 packages to be removed, none of which appear to be related to mail-client/-MERGING-evolution:2.0. > > Final shot is to play around in /var/db/pkg. This is where portage keeps > track of what is installed, and how, so messing around here is > inherently unsafe. I have my suspicions as to the correct thing to do > here, but I won't post it since I'm not terribly sure. Someone with more > expertise could help here, but I suspect either method 1 or 2 will work. In /var/db/pkg I found a directory mail-client/-MERGING-evolution-2.12.1 containing the following files CATEGORY COUNTER FEATURES LICENSE SLOT repository CBUILD CXXFLAGS HOMEPAGE NEEDED SRC_URI CFLAGS DEPEND INHERITED PDEPEND USE CHOST DESCRIPTION IUSE PF environment.bz2 CONTENTS EAPI KEYWORDS RDEPEND evolution-2.12.1.ebuild Unsure what to do next, I'd be grateful for suggestions. -John > > Nick > > -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195
