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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 2:32 am    Post subject: revdep-rebuild keeps installing the same package Reply with quote

I just updated dbus, which broke a lot of my programs, so I ran revdep-rebuild. This fixed about a dozen broken packages, including the gcc-4.1.1-r3 package. After running and successfully completing revdep-rebuild, I re-ran it to make sure that everything was up-to-date. revdep-rebuild told me that it needed to install gcc-4.1.1-r3 again, so I let it. I then ran revdep-rebuild again to make sure everything was ok, and it told me that it needed to install gcc-4.1.1-r3 yet again.

Does anyone know why revdep-rebuild keeps wanting to install gcc-4.1.1-r3? Is there a common workaround for this?

Thanks in advance!

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:50 am    Post subject: Re: revdep-rebuild keeps installing the same package Reply with quote

tom purl wrote:
I just updated dbus, which broke a lot of my programs, so I ran revdep-rebuild. This fixed about a dozen broken packages, including the gcc-4.1.1-r3 package. After running and successfully completing revdep-rebuild, I re-ran it to make sure that everything was up-to-date. revdep-rebuild told me that it needed to install gcc-4.1.1-r3 again, so I let it. I then ran revdep-rebuild again to make sure everything was ok, and it told me that it needed to install gcc-4.1.1-r3 yet again.

Does anyone know why revdep-rebuild keeps wanting to install gcc-4.1.1-r3? Is there a common workaround for this?

Thanks in advance!

Tom Purl
Sometimes revdep-rebuild doesn't clean up it's temp files properly and therefore thinks you haven't done what you just did. To fix, either delete all the temp files (usually "rm /root/.revdep-rebuild.*" ) or, better yet, tell revdep-rebuild to ignore its temp files and start again:
Code:
# revdep-rebuild -ip


If it still insists on re-emerging gcc then there's something else going on.

HTH,
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:27 pm    Post subject: Re: revdep-rebuild keeps installing the same package Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip madisonicus. I'll try this tonight and see if it fixes my problem.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 3:44 pm    Post subject: Re: revdep-rebuild keeps installing the same package Reply with quote

What file is revdep-rebuild moaning about? It's probably an orphan which can be deleted.
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 5:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

check this:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-532551-highlight-.html
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That's exactly the problem I'm having deno. I'll try that tonight. Thanks!
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 2:59 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks Deno! This seems to have fixed the problem.
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PostPosted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 6:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

As indicated by deno and verified by tom purl this is a duplicate of "[SOLVED] revdep-rebuild - broken libgcjawt.la, libgij.la"

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