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From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling
Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 15:30:35
Message-Id: 201005111830.25378.hwoarang@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] About libpng-1.4 handling by George Prowse
1 On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:05:19 George Prowse wrote:
2 > On 11/05/2010 04:52, Mike Frysinger wrote:
3 > > On Monday 10 May 2010 23:10:48 Markos Chandras wrote:
4 > >> provide a user friendly way to migrate to the new libpng without the
5 > >> need to spend so many hours digging around on which packages to
6 > >> rebuild.
7 > >
8 > > if you're "digging around" then clearly you havent done the obvious and
9 > > run revdep-rebuild ? that is pretty user-friendly.
10 > >
11 > > Samuli is right though ... this isnt really something that can be
12 > > reverted without breaking things just as much. either help out with the
13 > > problem (see the open bug report), or add yourself to the cc list and
14 > > wait. harping on people only serves to annoy.
15 > > -mike
16 >
17 > I have run revdep-rebuild about 30 times and I still can't fix it.
18 > revdep-rebuild does not fix it and libpng needs to have some serious
19 > action before it goes stable because I booted into, basically a
20 > completely broken machine because I had to stop a large upgrade on the
21 > previous emerge (~300 packages) in the middle.
22 I am still trying to find a decent solution to fix all the ~arch systems.
23 Currently they are totally broken because of this upgrade. If you think that
24 the onliner that Samuli suggested works, please prepare a news item as quickly
25 as possible
26 --
27 Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
28 Gentoo Linux Developer
29 Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org