Dale schreef: > > Hi guys, and Holly, > > I ran a revdep-rebuild on my main rig and it says it needs to do this: > >> [ebuild UD] gnome-base/gnome-vfs-2.10.1-r2 [2.12.2] > > > > OK, the "U" means Upgrade right? The "D" means downgrade right? What > the heck is going on here? How is it going to upgrade then downgrade > and why?
It's not going to "upgrade, then downgrade" It means that the upgrade *is* a downgrade from the version currently installed. This can happen for a number of reasons, but all the reasons relate to the currently-installed package being "illegal" on your system in Portage's view. For example: 1. You installed the current version with "ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~arch" on the command line; because this is a temporary setting that Portage doesn't remember after a new shell login, when a global Portage search is later run, Portage sees that only stable packages are "legal" and downgrades the upgrade; 2. The package has changed status since installation and is no longer legal (for example, the dev team has discovered major problems and hard masked the package, making it legal on _no-one's_ system-- this happened to me yesterday with the bash upgrade); 3. The package that uses this package as a dependency cannot use this version of the currently-installed lib as a dependency (has a hard version dependency), so the package must be downgraded to serve as a dependency for the package in your world file that's demanding it. Etc., etc, enz. > > Here's the whole thing. > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] / # revdep-rebuild -p >> <snip> >> >> Collecting system binaries and libraries... using existing >> /root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files. >> <snip> > > > Can someone clear this one up for me? I'm a little more confused than > normal on this one. You see that "using exisiting /root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files"? That means that you previously ran revdep-rebuild -p and the system is using that output to run the actual rebuild. It's quite possible that the previous --pretend was run before you upgraded gnome-vfs, and the output of course does not know that the upgrade has occurred (since it's using old output, rather than checking the entire tree again). I would say either remove all the /root/.revdep-* files in the tree and run revdep-rebuild again (with or without -p, if you use -p then you'll have to run it again without to actually perform the rebuild), or just downgrade and then when you run another emerge -uaDtv world, you will likely be offered the upgrade again-- and since you're using the --tree option, you will be able to see what's bringing in gnome-vfs. > > While I am at it. I don't use Gnome so why is it installing it? I use > KDE. Do an emerge -upDtv gnome-vfs (after the downgrade, if you allow it). That should show you what is bringing it in (the --tree view), and the USE flags that package is using It's possible that you have the "gnome" USE flag enabled for a package that "doesn't need it", or another USE flag-- "eds" comes to mind" that forces the dependency. Hope this helps. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
