A particular lib is required by 2 different packages in 2 different versions. Each revdep-rebuild is requesting to run itself again and again. First I got : Calculating dependencies ..... done! [ebuild R ] gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-3.14.1 [blocks b ] sys-power/upower ("sys-power/upower" is blocking sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2) [uninstall ] sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2 [nomerge ] gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager-3.14.1 [ebuild N ] sys-power/upower-0.99.2-r1 USE="introspection -ios (-selinux)" and immediately after that : Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries * IMPORTANT: 2 config files in '/etc' need updating. * See the CONFIGURATION FILES section of the emerge * man page to learn how to update config files. * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies .... done! [ebuild R ] x11-plugins/wmbattery-2.45 [ebuild R ] net-im/telepathy-mission-control-5.16.3 [nomerge ] kde-base/khelpcenter-4.14.3 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdesu-4.14.3 [nomerge ] kde-base/kdelibs-4.14.6-r1 [nomerge ] sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2 USE="introspection -ios" [blocks b ] sys-power/upower ("sys-power/upower" is blocking sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2) [uninstall ] sys-power/upower-0.99.2-r1 [ebuild N ] sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2 USE="introspection -ios" * IMPORTANT: 2 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. This is an unstable amd64 chroot image (named amd64-unstable_20150401) at a hardened host acting as a tinderbox. Portage 2.2.18 (python 2.7.9-final-0, default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.3, glibc-2.20-r2, 3.19.3-hardened x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.19.3-hardened-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-3770_CPU_@_3.40GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 16164756 total, 4414292 free KiB Swap: 16777212 total, 16734064 free Timestamp of repository gentoo: Sun, 05 Apr 2015 20:00:01 +0000 sh bash 4.3_p33-r2 ld GNU ld (Gentoo 2.25 p1.0) 2.25 ccache version 3.2.1 [disabled] app-shells/bash: 4.3_p33-r2::gentoo dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0::gentoo dev-lang/perl: 5.20.2::gentoo dev-lang/python: 2.7.9-r2::gentoo, 3.3.5-r1::gentoo dev-util/ccache: 3.2.1-r1::gentoo dev-util/cmake: 3.1.0::gentoo dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28-r2::gentoo sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2::gentoo sys-apps/openrc: 0.13.11::gentoo sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13::gentoo, 2.69-r1::gentoo sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3-r1::gentoo, 1.11.6-r1::gentoo, 1.13.4::gentoo, 1.14.1::gentoo, 1.15::gentoo sys-devel/binutils: 2.25::gentoo sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.3::gentoo, 4.9.2::gentoo sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8::gentoo sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.6-r1::gentoo sys-devel/make: 4.1-r1::gentoo sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.19::gentoo (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.20-r2::gentoo Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync-type: rsync sync-uri: rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage priority: -1000 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/maven-bin-3.2/conf /usr/share/qpsmtpd/plugins /var/lib/hsqldb /var/yp/Makefile" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/dconf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/php/apache2-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/apache2-php5.6/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.5/ext-active/ /etc/php/cgi-php5.6/ext-active/ 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tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
I think something is wrong here in portage side: - gnome-power-manager needs upower - kdelibs supports both => it should then choose plain upower instead of switching from one to another constantly
It seems that gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager is eligible for removal by emerge --depclean, because otherwise emerge should not uninstall sys-power/upower. In cases like this, I would recommend to run `emerge --ask --depclean` before running revdep-rebuild. If --depclean would remove a package that you want to keep, then you should add it to your world file like this: emerge --noreplace gnome-extra/gnome-power-manager Since revdep-rebuild only looks at installed packages, it is not aware that gnome-power-manager is eligible for removal by emerge --depclean.
(In reply to Zac Medico from comment #2) Wouldn't "emerge --depclean" complain to run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" first ?
(In reply to Toralf Förster from comment #3) > (In reply to Zac Medico from comment #2) > Wouldn't "emerge --depclean" complain to run "emerge @preserved-rebuild" > first ? The @preserved-rebuild message is never anything more that a suggestion, so it will not stop you from running "emerge --depclean". I think we should adjust the message to recommend that you run "emerge --depclean" first.
In my case I *always* run: eix-sync && emerge -avuDN world && emerge -a --depclean && emerge @preserved-rebuild && revdep-rebuild That way I ensure even broken packages with automagic deps are rebuild once the tree is clean. I am using that order for years without major issues, and with "preserved-libs" it's even safer :)
