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Yesterday, for about 30 hours all my newly recieved mail went to /dev/null |
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because of a portage limitation... |
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I have an old computes which acts as a firewall/router, ftpserver webserver |
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and mailserver with IMAP and spamassassin... I have "mysql" in my USE-flags |
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on said server.. Yesterday portage upgraded MySQL from 3.23.56 to 4.0.12.. |
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postfix and maildrop both linked to /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10 which went |
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away when MySQL was upgraded.. When the still running postfix delivered the |
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mail using dropmail, dropmail just died with "error while loading shared |
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libraries: no such file or directory" and for some reason (I'd call it a bug |
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in postfix) it didn't defer them, they just went to /dev/null... |
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Anyway, I won't whine about it.. Instead I'm looking into finding a solution |
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for the REAL problem... |
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A solution I've been thinking about is this: |
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When a package is installed portage will run ldd on all binaries and libs and |
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put its library-depends in a file in its /var/db/pkg-directory. |
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Later when a package is upgraded, it will scan the LIBDEPS-files for broken |
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dependancies and tell the user something like: |
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* WARNING: The following packages needs to be reinstalled because of broken |
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dependancies: |
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* net-www/blabla |
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* app-games/blablabla |
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* media-video/blabla |
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And when a package is uninstalled with -C or --clean, it will scan the |
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LIBDEPS-files for the libs it will remove and refuse to uninstall it if it |
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breaks anything. Maybe with a warning like this: |
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* WARNING: dev-libs/libblablabla can't be uninstalled because the following |
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packages depends on it: |
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* net-www/blabla |
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* app-games/blablabla |
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* media-video/blabla |
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* use --force to uninstall it anyway. |
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Anyone have a better solution? |
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Regards, |
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Per Wigren |
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