Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-25 Thread Andrey Moshbear
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if a

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:15:34 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Oh no. Emerging one package to see how another package emerges will > > give exactly the same result every time, not an inch of variation :( > > You're forgetting about what the cosmic rays, solar flares and quarks > clear across the

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 21:59 on Tuesday 19 April 2011, Neil Bothwick did opine thusly: > On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > > >> I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad > > >> idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it > > >>

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 19 Apr 2011 10:25:23 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> I agree that setting about anything on the command line is a bad > >> idea. However, it is just to test it to see what, if anything, it > >> changes. > > But it doesn't tell you if setting the flag solves the problem, > > because it doesn't att

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one causing the problem.

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Alan. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:11:48PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie > did opine thusly: > > > These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE > > > flag set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-19 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:47:59 -0500, Dale wrote: > > I hadn't noticed the -p, but what will it show? It certainly won't > > show whether setting that USE flag globally will correct the error > > message, as the pretend emerge is for one package, and not the one > > causing the problem. You'd need t

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do the later m

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 17:18:17 -0500, Dale wrote: > I might add, he has the -p option in there. It's not going to *do* > anything but show if it will work or not. Then a person can adjust the > USE settings the correct way and remove the -p option or add -a. I do > the later myself. I hadn't

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Dale
Neil Bothwick wrote: On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:06 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: I would do USE="static-libs" emerge -Dup libgcrypt & if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . That will also set the USE flag for any other packages in libgcrypt's dependency tree. Add

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 15:26:06 -0400, Philip Webb wrote: > I would do > > USE="static-libs" emerge -Dup libgcrypt > > & if that works, add the flag to /etc/portage/package.use . That will also set the USE flag for any other packages in libgcrypt's dependency tree. Additionally, it will add lib

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan McKinnon
Apparently, though unproven, at 22:21 on Monday 18 April 2011, Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly: > > These are the items that require libgcrypt with static-libs USE flag > > set. Sometimes changing USE flags on thse packages will change the > > dependency requirements. Sometimes it's just somethin

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Paul. On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:52:17AM -0500, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in o

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread David W Noon
On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 19:20:02 +0200, Carlos Sura wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!: [snip] >You should: nano /etc/make.conf > >and add the flag: static-libs > >USE="static-libs" This is not, in the general case, a go

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Philip Webb
110418 Alan Mackenzie wrote: > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > # emerge --update --deep -p world > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > Calculating dependencies... done! > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy > "dev-libs/li

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Carlos Sura
On 18 April 2011 10:21, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds built with U

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-libs/libgcrypt[

Re: [gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Paul Hartman
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, gentoo. > > When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: > > # emerge --update --deep -p world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > emerge: there are no ebuilds bui

[gentoo-user] I can't understand an emerge error. Help, please!

2011-04-18 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, gentoo. When I try to run an emerge world, I get this error: # emerge --update --deep -p world These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy "dev-libs/libgcrypt[static-libs]". !!! One o