On Wed, Dec 07 2016, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 12:30 PM, allan gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 07 2016, Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> On Wed, 07 Dec 2016 10:54:59 -0500, allan gottlieb wrote: >>> >>>> >> emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "dev-lang/python:3.3". >>>> >> (dependency required by "@preserved-rebuild" [argument]) >>>> > >>>> > Does "qdepends -r dev-lang/python:3.3" reveal anything helpful? >>>> >>>> allan ~ # qdepends -r dev-lang/python:3.3 >>>> depends: no matches found for your query >>>> >>>> Looks like no. >>> >>> How about something a bit less subtle >>> >>> grep python:3.3 /var/db/pkg/*/*/*.ebuild >>> >>> although that won't help if the dependency is in an eclass. >> >> Looks like an even blunter instrument is needed >> >> allan ~ # grep python:3.3 /var/db/pkg/*/*/*.ebuild >> allan ~ # >> > > Have you tried simply removing dev-lang/python:3.3? It was > masked/removed from the tree some time ago.
Thanks. emerge --depclean dev-lang/python:3.3 fixed the current problem and exposed an similar problem with ruby. Fortunately emerge --depclean dev-lang/ruby:1.9 fixed that one as well and now the emerge @preserved-rebuild is happily doing its thing. Thanks again. allan
