Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Steeve Lennmark <steeve@×××××××××.se>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 14:45:34
Message-Id: 1101912326.8437.21.camel@steeve.msvar
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-server] Broken world upgrades by Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte
1 Hi.
2
3 Yeah, I know of that tool. Although, alot of "critcal" php scripts on my
4 servers will be broken for atleast the thirty minutes it takes me to
5 recompile php afterwards, or am I missing something?
6
7 // Steeve
8
9 On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 09:41 -0500, Jean-Francois Gagnon Laporte wrote:
10 > Hi !
11 >
12 > I do not know if you are aware of revdep-rebuild. This tool was
13 > specifically design for this purpose. It's a "Broken reverse
14 > dependency rebuilder" to quote the help dialog.
15 >
16 > emerge -av gentoolkit
17 >
18 > You have to run revdep-rebuild as root (duh) and it will search for
19 > broken or missing librairies.
20 >
21 > Cheers !
22 >
23 > Jean-Francois
24 >
25 > On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:33:46 +0100, Steeve Lennmark <steeve@×××××××××.se> wrote:
26 > > Hi,
27 > > how do you people handle dynamically linked breakage during world
28 > > upgrades?
29 > > I upgraded media-libs/pdflib from 5.0.2 to 6.0.0_p1 and since php was
30 > > dynamically linked against pdflib it broke, giving me the following
31 > > error:
32 > > php: error while loading shared libraries: libpdf.so.2: cannot open
33 > > shared object file: No such file or directory
34 > >
35 > > I can't figure out how to keep my servers up to date without breaking
36 > > them at points. If I would have manually recompiled pdflib (getting the
37 > > later version), php would still be broken until I was manually done with
38 > > the recompile of php.
39 > >
40 > > Enlighten me!
41 > >
42 > > --
43 > > Steeve Lennmark - MediaSvar AB
44 > > steeve@×××××××××.se
45 > > :wq
46 > >
47 > >
48 >
49 --
50 Steeve Lennmark - MediaSvar AB
51 Tel: +46(0)511-28503
52 steeve@×××××××××.se
53 :wq