On Saturday 06 June 2009 23:10:40 walt wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > ... > > You will notice that after running "emerge @preserved-rebuild", > > revdep-rebuild almost invariably returns null results... > > I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but now: > > #emerge @preserved-rebuild > !!! '@preserved-rebuild' is not a valid package atom.
That looks like a portage version that does not support sets - it doesn't seem to know what '@' means. Did you downgrade portage? > !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. > > Would it work if I had any 'preserved' packages on the machine? If the set is empty, the error is something along the lines of "set has no members" or words to that effect -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
