Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-08 Thread William Kenworthy
hmmm ... sounds a bit cranky! - had a tooth out today :( BilLK On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 20:25 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: 2.1.6.13 was the latest when ... - thats as kindly as I can think of the person and his reasons for putting me through a lot of work as I didnt notice the downgrade on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-08 Thread William Kenworthy
2.1.6.13 was the latest when ... - thats as kindly as I can think of the person and his reasons for putting me through a lot of work as I didnt notice the downgrade on one system in time. If it was for security or other reasons I could understand it, and maybe not agree with it ... but just

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-08 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 20:25:57 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: On this system, I just left portage at what seemed to be a working version to avoid the problems caused by the downgrade. I think the key word here is seemed :( -- Neil Bothwick There's no place like ~ signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 June 2009 03:28:21 William Kenworthy wrote: As for the OP, I can only guess what might be causing this. Let's start with obvious stuff: 1. Is portage the latest version for your arch? 2. What does revdep-rebuild return? 3. What is your arch, and is it a mixture of stable

[gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread walt
Alan McKinnon wrote: ... I'm also not sure anymore about which portage version was first to support sets. What I did was blow my top at the forced downgrade of portage at Zac's whim, and unmasked portage. Lots of troubles immediately and at once went away when I did this... Maybe that's why I

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Sunday 07 June 2009 17:21:20 walt wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: ... I'm also not sure anymore about which portage version was first to support sets. What I did was blow my top at the forced downgrade of portage at Zac's whim, and unmasked portage. Lots of troubles immediately and at

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 09:28:21 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: * sys-apps/portage Latest version available: 2.1.6.13 Latest version installed: 2.2_rc15 If you're going to run release candidate versions, at least run the latest release candidate. rc15 hasn't been in portage for a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-07 Thread Graham Murray
Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: The only reason it's masked is to force as many users as possible to use an earlier version so that it can receive more testing and get better bug reports, and that was done by Zac himself. There is not a single technical or code quality

[gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread walt
William Kenworthy wrote: After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but after building, there is no change ... !!! existing preserved

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:23:26 walt wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but after

[gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread walt
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

2009-06-06 Thread William Kenworthy
On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 19:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:23:26 walt wrote: William Kenworthy wrote: After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested emerge @preserved-rebuild, plus