Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate
You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 If you want to unmerge any or all versions of the package currently installed, letting Portage decide which to unmerge, the correct syntax is emerge -C php Ok, but this will remove php-5, and that's not what I want. I want to remove dev-php/php any version, but I do that (I think the right syntax to do it is emerge -C dev-php/php), I got the previous message, obvisoualy there is an inconsistence on my system: - To update a package that is blocked by another package is required - The required package is not installed. It looks like the point is php has migrated. The version 4.x and below are located in dev-php and the version 5.x and above are locate in dev-lang, so is there an inconsistency in the portage tree when unmasking php-5.x and above? This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate
This is Gentoo's daft syntax again! What you need here is not # emerge -C giflib, as you would reasonably expect, but # emerge -C libungif I can't do that, libungif is required on my system. I'm pretty sure some programs won't run anymore if I remove it, but I can test anyway This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Depclean
Hi everybody, I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an update, and run : emerge --newuse -Dvu world It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok. Afterwards, I run : revdep-rebuild It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also uninstall so useless software and/or lib. Now, I'm quite sure everything is correctly linked, since runing emerge --newuse -Dvu world or revdep-rebuild answers : nothing has to be done . Now I try the dangerous following command as describe in the documentation : emerge --depclean -p (just to see what should be done) And then I'm quite surprise, 41 packages should be removed, and among them, a lot of usefull lib or tool (perl-ldap, xinetd, and so on ...) Is this result normal ? What did I miss ? Thank by advance about this your help. Sébastien This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
