[gentoo-amd64] Re: Upgrading glibc and glib

[Duncan]

Beso <givemesugarr@×××××.com> posted
d257c3560904060746s174aa32did5b25175f5df1fc3@××××××××××.com, excerpted
below, on  Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:46:10 +0200:

> after upgrading packages like glibc and glib, or other system packages
> (packages included in the system set), it's a must you run
> revdep-rebuild to fix broken dependencies. running revdep-rebuild it's
> safer also when upgrading normal packages that could break other
> packages, like ffmpe, x264 or python. i usually run it at least once a
> week or after a system upgrade.

FWIW, I run it after every update, which is generally at least once a 
week here and is often daily.  Along with emerge --pretend --depclean, 
revdep-rebuild --pretend and acting on the resulting list (if any) is as 
much a part of my routine post-update- session cleanup as emerge --sync 
is a part of the pre-update-session preparation.  As with etc-update too, 
if I don't do it, I've not yet finished my update.  It's all part of 
keeping a clean and well functioning system.

BTW, having --as-needed in your LDFLAGS **DRAMATICALLY** reduces the 
number of packages that end up in the revdep-rebuild list.  Where there 
may be a one or two packages to rebuild with as-needed, without it 
there'll likely be a dozen or more!  See Flameeyes' blog (as seen on 
Gentoo planet) among other places for more info.  I think there's a bit 
more than that needed in the actual LDFLAGS (-Wl,-z maybe?), but I have 
several other LDFLAGS merged into the same expression and am not sure 
whether the -Wl prefix applies to --as-needed or not.

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