Why is revdep-rebuild trying to build pkgs that don't exist?

don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

When I run revdep-rebuild it tries to build packages that don't exist such as 'oaf'. How can I fix this problem? Thanks.

dq

PaulBredbury · Watchman Joined: 14 Jul 2005 Posts: 7021

Show the error message, not your vague interpretation of it. Provide *detail*.

jstead1 · Posted: Sat May 05, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject:

You probably have a package that was built against oaf when it existed in gentoo (it has been removed and replaced).

I would try to remove and re-install the package that is requiring oaf. It will then be installed with updated dependencies, without oaf.

Make sure that you have done an emerge -uDN world, prior to using revdep-rebuild.
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jsf_x35a · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 12:58 am Post subject:

To figure out what package needs oaf just emerge gentoolkit and do:

don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

There wasn't really an error message, hence not showing it.

I ran equery on oaf and here are the results:

jsf_x35a · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:23 am Post subject:

If I remember right, guppi is an extremely old library in gnome that was used for making plots and graphs. I don't think the project got along too well and was shut down in 2001.

I think you should be fine removing guppi. But you better get a second opinion. Once you've removed guppi, do an emerge --depclean to get rid of all those dependencies and then a revdep-rebuild.
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jsf_x35a · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 2:25 am Post subject:

By the way, are you using a portage overlay? I can't seem to find oaf in my portage tree.
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don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

It's funny that you mention an overlay since I tried to get one working and was unsuccessful. I still get an error message which I can easily remove but it's there as a reminder to one day get off my ass and get the overlay working. Anyway, no oaf isn't in my portage tree either so, I suspect, when I pruned a bunch of packages, oaf was removed but not guppi. There are other packages that don't exist either that guppi depends on. Like gnome-print and bonobo. Since I don't need a plotter/graphing program anymore I'll remove guppi. Thanks.

dq

don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

Hmmm, it still wants to install the packages. Here's the list of packages it wants to install:

jsf_x35a · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 3:53 am Post subject:

Hmm... that's weird. revdep-rebuild is trying to emerge a package that doesn't exist. First time I've seen that happen. There's only two things of the top of my head that I can think of,

1) You have an old release of portage/gentoolkit which still has oaf listed somewhere in there. In this case an emerge --sync and update of gentoolkit should fix it.

2) You have oaf in your overlay which might somehow be interfering with your main portage tree. I'm not sure about how to fix it in this case.
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don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

Ok I obliterated any reference to an overlay and rebuilt gentoolkit and the problem persists:

jsf_x35a · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 8:07 pm Post subject:

Wow, I'm stumped. It's the first time I've seen portage trying to emerge non-existent packages.

Anyway, a lot the packages that revdep-rebuild is trying to emerge seem to be gnome packages. If you don't actually have gnome or use are sure that you don't use those packages, I don't see any harm in deleting the binary's manually. But I'm always kind of scared of doing that in case I break something. My suggestion is to move those binaries/libraries to a different location and try using your machine for a day or so. If nothing seems broken, it should be safe to delete them.

edit: Oh yeh, and before you start moving those binaries/libs, it would be a good idea to equery the packages that revdep-rebuild is trying to emerge to make sure 100% that they are not dependencies for anything.
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Hu · Watchman Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 7614

I suspect that you still have gnome-base/oaf installed, so revdep-rebuild wants to reinstall gnome-base/oaf with the expectation that rebuilding it will cause its binaries to link to libraries which exist. I base this guess on this output:

jstead1 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 8:51 pm Post subject:

When I didn't revdep-rebuild often (not for about 2 years) revdep-rebuild tried to pull in revisions that got cleaned out, and some packages that didn't exist. If you have old packages that depend on orphans, that have been removed from your system and from portage, revdep-rebuild doesn't know that. It just looks for the version of a package that the needy package was built against and tries to emerge it. If it is not there, it is time for manual intervention.

From the equery don quixada ran, there are two packages that depend on oaf, bonobo and guppi.
You need to remove both. (if they are installed)

Also, to run a fresh revdep-rebuild after an interrupted one, you need to delete the files, something like:

jstead1 · Posted: Sun May 06, 2007 10:11 pm Post subject:

Just another thought, I thought I would put it seperate from my previous post, so you wouldn't miss it.

It is probably important to find the package, if there is one, that is pulling in cppunit, since it may itself be an old package, not in the portage tree, and that is why it is pulling in all these old packages.
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don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

I tried all that stuff at the beginning of your post (i.e. rm .revdep etc.) and still have the problem. I also removed oaf and all the other packages: guppi, gnome-print etc. and still no change.

jstead1 · Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 1:56 am Post subject:

don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

Well, I just ended-up removing all the offending packages. Now there is no problem, so I guess this is solved.

dq

edit: I couldn't add [SOLVED] to the first message due to the field being full. Actually, this makes me think that there really should be a [SOLVED] flag that one can set at the beginning of a thread that is built into phpBB. (but that's another topic...)

jstead1 · Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 9:07 pm Post subject: Re: [solved]

don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

I'm the original poster. The problem is the subject line can be only so many characters long.

dq

scaramanga · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 160

Hey,

I have similar problem. Revdep-rebuild wants to pull in media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5, but finds no ebuild. My portage is uptodate. An equery returns nothing;

tux stig # equery depends =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5
[ Searching for packages depending on =media-libs/gdk-pixbuf-0.22.0-r5... ]
tux stig #

But a look through the revdep-rebuild messages, gives me;

broken /usr/lib/libgnomecanvaspixbuf.la (requires /usr/lib/libgnomeui.la)
broken /usr/lib/libgnomecanvaspixbuf.la (requires /usr/lib/libart_lgpl.la)
broken /usr/lib/libgnomecanvaspixbuf.la (requires /usr/lib/libgnome.la)
broken /usr/lib/libgnomecanvaspixbuf.la (requires /usr/lib/libgnomesupport.la)

But I am none the wiser.

How do I "remove" this media-libs/gdk-pixbuf package, from portage?

Isn't this a lot of Gnome stuff, for a all KDE guy like myself?

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scaramanga · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 160

Thanks. I was able to complete a revdep-rebuild, using the revdep-rebild -X -i command.

If I after revdep-rebuild -i -X run revdep-rebuild, it still complains about the missing gdk-pixbuf package though.

don quixada · Guru Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 596

scaramanga · Apprentice Joined: 31 May 2005 Posts: 160

Yep. Same here. I noticed that media-libs/gdk-pixbuf appeared on the output of emerge -p depclean, so I emerge -C'ed it, and that worked