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On Monday 10 November 2003 12:00, Ron OHara wrote: |
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> This installed 'openssl-0.9.7' and removed 'openssl-0.9.6' - |
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> unfortunately lots of stuff on the system was compiled and linked |
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> against 'openssl-0.9.6' and they promptly broke. IE. Serious outage on a |
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> production system. |
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There is work going on to fix this. Others will be able to answer this better |
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than me. |
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> There is a script designed to fix this called 'revdep-rebuild' which |
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> scans all the installed binaries for broken dependencies and then |
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> recompiles them which should make them link against the nice new |
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> 'openssl-0.9.7' |
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> except!!! - revdep-rebuild carefully tries to recompile the exact |
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> versions of software you have installed (good idea) - but the Gentoo |
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> central repository has since deleted some of the build scripts for these |
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> older versions and when I did the 'emerge rsync', the scripts were also |
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> removed from my system. So I ended up where I am now - I have to go |
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> through and do 'emerge -u world' and then 'revdep-rebuild' to get it all |
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> working... not nice when there are nearly 200 packages to |
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> download/recompile on an old P233 |
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I would call this a bug in revdep-rebuild. If it wants to use the package |
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that's installed rather than the latest one when rebuilding it should use the |
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ebuild that IS in /var/db/pkg/ rather than an ebuild that MAY be in /usr/ |
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portage. Just my $0.02. |
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Regards, |
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Jason |
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