What's wrong with that ? You have two (or even more) db packages installed in different slots, and due to historical reasons some packages were built agains one version and some - against another. Remove the old version manually and run revdep-rebuild
> Hi, > I what way can I improve my use of the tools? I don't remember > seeing a case before where revdep-rebuild -ip was clean but emerge > --depclean didn't want to remove files. I.e. - the > sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 message. > > Thanks, > Mark > > lightning ~ # revdep-rebuild -ip > * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > * Checking reverse dependencies > * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update > * will be emerged. > > * Collecting system binaries and libraries > * Generated new 1_files.rr > * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH > * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr > * Checking dynamic linking consistency > [ 100% ] > > * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. > lightning ~ # emerge -p --depclean > > * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious > * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always > * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with > * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in > * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by > * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. > * > * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages > * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a > * consequence, it is often necessary to run `emerge --update > * --newuse --deep @system @world` prior to depclean. > > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>> Checking for lib consumers... > >>> Assigning files to packages... > * In order to avoid breakage of link level dependencies, one or more > * packages will not be removed. This can be solved by rebuilding the > * packages that pulled them in. > * > * sys-libs/db-4.5.20_p2-r1 pulled in by: > * dev-lang/perl-5.8.8-r5 > * perl-core/DB_File-1.815 > * > >>> Adding lib providers to graph... > \ > Calculating dependencies... done! > >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean > >>> To see reverse dependencies, use --verbose > Packages installed: 801 > Packages in world: 95 > Packages in system: 51 > Required packages: 801 > Number to remove: 0 > lightning ~ # emerge -pvDuN @world > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > > Total: 0 packages, Size of downloads: 0 kB > lightning ~ # -- Dmitri Pogosyan Department of Physics Professor University of Alberta tel 1-780-492-2150 11322 - 89 Avenue fax 1-780-492-0714 Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G7, CANADA
