On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 13:08:09 -0400,
Jack wrote:
>
> On 6/18/19 1:00 PM, John Covici wrote:
> > On Tue, 18 Jun 2019 12:46:43 -0400,
> > Dale wrote:
> >> John Covici wrote:
> >>> It would seem impossible for me to switch to profile 17.1. I say this
> >>> because I can never run emerge --depclean . I have a few packages
> >>> which will not compile and one not in the tree anymore. the packages
> >>> which will not compile are mono-4.4.1.0 and totem-3.30 -- I have filed
> >>> bugs against both of them. Inn no longer configures and I have
> >>> discussed this in another thread. So, where can I go with this? I
> >>> hate to just go forward, although these packages look they don't have
> >>> any lib32 dependencies. Wat do you thihnk about this?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I read other replies and had a thought. Couldn't you run emerge -p
> >> --depclean and let it list what needs cleaning up, then clean it up
> >> manually with -C or some other option that works? It would take more
> >> time to do it that way but at least you would have a cleaner system
> >> without removing your packages you want to keep. May make the profile
> >> switch easier.
> >>
> >> Also, you could use --exclude on --depclean as well. Since I rarely
> >> reboot, I do manual updates on my kernel, I emerge them then mask them
> >> so it doesn't want to update every little version increase. When I run
> >> --depclean, I have to use --exclude gentoo-sources to make it ignore my
> >> kernel sources. In your case, emerge -p --depclean --exclude mono
> >> --exclude totem --exclude inn, assuming I have that last one spelled
> >> correctly.
> >>
> >> Just make sure you use -a or -p with those first. Wouldn't want to
> >> forget and really mess up something. :/
> >>
> >> Would either of those work for you?
> > Here is the exact output from emerge --depclean
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ........ done!
> > * Dependencies could not be completely resolved due to
> > * the following required packages not being installed:
> > *
> > * gnome-base/gnome-desktop:3/12= pulled in by:
> > * media-video/totem-3.24.0
> > *
> > * dev-libs/openssl:0/0= pulled in by:
> > * net-nntp/inn-2.5.5-r1
> > *
> > * Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to
> > depclean? The
> > * most comprehensive command for this purpose is as
> > follows:
> > *
> > * emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y
> > @world
> > *
> > * Note that the --with-bdeps=y option is not
> > required in many
> > * situations. Refer to the emerge manual page
> > (run `man emerge`)
> > * for more information about --with-bdeps.
> > *
> > * Also, note that it may be necessary to
> > manually uninstall
> > * packages that no longer exist in
> > the
> > repository, since it may not
> > * be possible to satisfy their
> > dependencies.
> Can you manually emerge those needed packages?
> (gnome-base/gnome-desktop:3/12 and dev-libs/openssl:0/9) That
> should be possible even though you can't compile inn or totem.
>
They don't seem to be valid package atoms -- according to portage.
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