Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Saturday 06 June 2009 23:10:40 walt wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >>> ... >>> You will notice that after running "emerge @preserved-rebuild", >>> revdep-rebuild almost invariably returns null results... >>> >> I know I've used the @preserved-rebuild target in the past, but now: >> >> #emerge @preserved-rebuild >> !!! '@preserved-rebuild' is not a valid package atom. >> > > That looks like a portage version that does not support sets - it doesn't > seem > to know what '@' means. > > Did you downgrade portage? >
Why not post what version of portage you are using? emerge --info should do that. > > >> !!! Please check ebuild(5) for full details. >> >> Would it work if I had any 'preserved' packages on the machine? >> > > If the set is empty, the error is something along the lines of "set has no > members" or words to that effect > > > Looks something like this: r...@smoker / # emerge @preserved-rebuild emerge: 'preserved-rebuild' is an empty set emerge: no targets left after set expansion r...@smoker / # Dale :-) :-)
