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Alex Bennee <kernel-hacker@××××××.com> posted |
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1151449927.10564.2.camel@malory, excerpted below, on Wed, 28 Jun 2006 |
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00:12:06 +0100: |
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> Despite no longer having the emulation libraries installed eselect keep |
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> screwing up my headers to point at 32 bit glx stuff. This obviously breaks |
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> various X related compiles. |
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What does equery belongs </path/to/32-bit-file> return? What video |
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drivers are you running? |
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If you are running slaveryware video drivers, equery belongs will probably |
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return them (assuming you merged them using portage, anyway). If it |
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returns nothing and you didn't manually (not using portage, so it doesn't |
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know about the file) install something using that file, it's likely safe to |
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delete it. Just to be safe, however, I'd rename it to *.2006.07.28.remove |
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(a month later) or something similar. Then after that date, if you've not |
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found anything broken, go ahead and remove it, as even if it /does/ break |
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something it can't be too critical if you've not used it once in 30 days. |
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> Does anyone know how I can stop it doing this? Unfortunately its called |
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> during the ebuild so I can't manually fix them and re-run the build. |
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Actually, that isn't entirely the case. See the Gentoo Handbook, Working |
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with Portage section, and the ebuild (1 and 5) manpages for some details, |
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but many Gentoo users have their own local overlays, where they copy |
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ebuilds and modify them as desired, then redigest and merge them. I |
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routinely do this with some packages, say to strip out a filterflags call |
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that was thrown in by the Gentoo maintainer due to some problem with some |
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subarchs of x86, where the flags in question work just fine on at least my |
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amd64, for instance. That's the beauty of having ebuilds that are |
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basically bash scripts -- they are easily modified by anyone who knows |
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bash -- the portage system was deliberately set up to allow this, and a |
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lot of work has gone into and will continue to go into ensuring that this |
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easy modifiability remains the case. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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