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commit: ef0cfc2c0e68299ddfa355732c76cf7d9ed83fcb |
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Author: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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AuthorDate: Mon Nov 22 06:30:45 2021 +0000 |
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Commit: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> |
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CommitDate: Mon Nov 22 06:31:58 2021 +0000 |
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URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/data/gentoo-news.git/commit/?id=ef0cfc2c |
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2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries: mention when it's ok to skip -e |
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It should be okay to skip -e @world and instead only rebuild libraries + |
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their consumers in some cases. |
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Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811462 |
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Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam <AT> gentoo.org> |
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.../2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt | 7 ++++++- |
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1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) |
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diff --git a/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt b/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt |
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index 7154bc4..68aa6af 100644 |
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--- a/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt |
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+++ b/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt |
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@@ -93,7 +93,12 @@ Step 3. Given that there are possible other side-effects of the corruption/bug, |
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Note that binary packages may need to be discarded given they may |
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contain corrupt metadata. |
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- If no libraries were broken, it is likely safe to skip this step. |
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+ If no libraries were broken, it is likely safe to skip this step. It |
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+ should be sufficient, for resource-constrained machines, to simply |
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+ rebuild any broken libraries and their consumers (reverse-dependencies): |
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+ revdep-rebuild may help you do this. |
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+ (If you do not know what that means, please proceed with Step 3.) |
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Please see the wiki [0] for a full description of the background |
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of this problem and handling corner cases such as e.g. already |
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