media-libs/xpm removed from Portage

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

media-libs/xpm was removed from portage. Portage just thinks the xpm package was renamed to xfree, that's why it says it wants to remove the "old version" of xfree.

Also, some packages might complain about the absence of media-libs/xpm:

Zeeland · n00b Joined: 13 Feb 2003 Posts: 28

I got this error when typing 'emerge -up -D world'
After removing the gnucash-1.8.4.ebuild and emerge sync, the error still appeared.

wormie · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2002 Posts: 36

It may be worth noting that in my case portage was doing this after emerging a package:

bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

b_Q · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 163

Hi
"Lucky" me AUTOCLEAN="no" here..
and 2 syncs(at limit) later I still have an emerge -p clean like wormie.

# pwd
/var/db/pkg/x11-base/xfree-3.4k-r1 <-----??????????
# ls -l
total 76
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9 Jun 12 20:18 CATEGORY
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 May 26 06:04 CBUILD
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 May 26 06:04 CC
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 May 26 06:04 CDEPEND
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 May 26 06:04 CFLAGS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18 May 26 06:04 CHOST
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1640 May 26 06:04 CONTENTS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 May 26 06:04 COUNTER
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 May 26 06:04 CXX
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 51 May 26 06:04 CXXFLAGS
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 May 26 06:04 DEPEND
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6 May 26 06:04 LICENSE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 May 26 06:04 PDEPEND
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 May 26 06:04 PF
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1 May 26 06:04 PROVIDE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12 May 26 06:04 RDEPEND
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 May 26 06:04 SLOT
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 369 May 26 06:04 USE
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 740 Jun 12 20:19 xpm-3.4k-r1.ebuild <---!!!!!!!

This does not make sence.

Do I just rm -r /var/db/pkg/x11-base/xfree-3.4k-r1
or wait for a cleaned up portage sync later?
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bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

b_Q · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 163

Hi
Thanks for pointing it out.
Apologies to wormie for not carefully reading his solution. :oops:

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b_Q · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 163

Hi
Not sure if it is a reliable solution.
On machine where I unmerged xfree-3.4k-r1 I now have
$ rxvt
rxvt: error while loading shared libraries: libXpm.so.4: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

On another machine where I have not unmerged xfree-3.4k-r1
epm -qf /usr/X11R6/lib/libXpm.so.4
xfree-4.3.0-r2
xfree-3.4k-r1

Very late here.
Weird portage.
Big problemo for later.
Shutting down.
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bsolar · Bodhisattva Joined: 12 Jan 2003 Posts: 2764

Chris Finch · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 12:33 pm Post subject:

I had the same problem and remerging xfree did solve the problem, here. The bug is reported as #22707.

sl70 · Guru Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 449 Location: Saitama, JP

I had the same problem and totally panicked. Re-emerging xfree seems to have fixed it. But while I was trying to figure out what was going on I noticed that qpkg was not working. I was getting a syntax error near line 62. Even with my limited shell program abilities, I could tell something was seriously corrupted. But when I reemerged gentoolkit, I got the same thing. The question is, where does gentoolkit come from? There's nothing in /usr/portage/distfiles and SRC_URI is blank. How should I fix this kind of problem? (I copied /usr/bin/qpkg from another machine this time.)

Chris Finch · Posted: Fri Jun 13, 2003 1:34 pm Post subject:

wormie · n00b Joined: 24 Aug 2002 Posts: 36

b_Q · Apprentice Joined: 18 Jun 2002 Posts: 163

Hi
Yes as expected emerge xfree fixed my problem.
My aim was to avoid useless xfreee recompilation(2h),
I failed, and should have waited for cleaned up sync.

I fell like a guneay pig!

Today's emerge sync resulted in eveything about
xpm or dummy/voodoo xfree-3.4k-r1 or xfree-3.4k-r2 not there,
gone from portage tree, useless, failed or whatever...

Would love/appreciate some kind of heads up please read this first
we are testing this portage problem with this proposed
sticky or something) solution...
(I cruse regularly gentoo cvs ans bugzilla,
am not an expert and don't read everything)

My forthcomming local solution( kinda looking out for myself):
before portage sync, backup current portage tree,
then figure out(my problem not yet there)
about seting upp local gentoo rscynd server
to point to backed up old portage tree if current
portage tree seem's weird and then re-sync to old/backed portage tree.
ie,
back out.
S_it would love to avoid this.
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TheCoop · Posted: Sun Jun 15, 2003 4:18 pm Post subject:

GurliGebis · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

hehe, I lost my X on this one

But there is nothing a quick 'emerge xfree' can't solve. (All my configurations was intact)

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dma · Posted: Sun Jun 22, 2003 1:12 am Post subject:

GurliGebis · Retired Dev Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 509

hehe, I know, but since it only takes me 3 hours emerging xfree, it isn't a problem for me, glad it didn't remove gnome instead.
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