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Randy Barlow <randy@×××××××××××××××××.com> posted |
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47F0F821.4010101@×××××××××××××××××.com, excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Mar |
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2008 10:41:37 -0400: |
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> Lindsay Haisley wrote: |
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>> When in doubt on these things, I generally winnow down the slotted |
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>> components and re-emerge everything involved, and run revdep-rebuild |
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>> enough to satisfy me that there aren't any _obvious_ breakages. |
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> Hey Lindsay, you might have a look at the output of emerge --depclean |
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> -p. If you have a lot of old packages on your machine, there's no |
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> telling what versions of them are being linked. If you can get rid of |
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> things that don't belong anymore, you might find that revdep-rebuild |
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> will find a lot of breakages (indicating that packages were linking to |
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> old versions of packages). Do be cautious before blindly unmerging |
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> things though! |
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Just what I was going to suggest. gnome-vfs-1.x would have been part of |
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gnome-1, which AFAIK is long gone. If you still have it around, chances |
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are you have a lot of stale packages still around. Cleaning some of that |
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thicket out should be a good thing, but of course you're likely to have a |
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bunch of bad revdep-rebuild dependencies to fix after you do. |
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One thing you might try for anything you are in doubt on, assuming you |
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don't use FEATURES=buildpkg and therefore have the binary packages |
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already, is to use quickpkg to package up anything before removal. That |
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way, if something critical stops working, you should still be able to |
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remerge from the binary-package. (In the event portage itself stops |
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working, since the binpkg is simply a bz2'ed tarball with some extra |
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metadata tacked onto the end, it's possible to extract individual files |
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manually, until one gets a working system once again. If the system's |
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broken to the point that doesn't work either, use any LiveCD with tar- |
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bunzip support.) |
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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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