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On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:16:46 +0200 |
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Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: |
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> > On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na> wrote |
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> > about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': |
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> > > revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. |
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> > > Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a |
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> > > long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary |
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> > > no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How |
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> > > do I find out? |
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> > |
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> > ??? |
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> I agree. ;-) |
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> > Are you running with the -q option? |
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> No -q option here. Straight revdep-rebuild. |
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> > Normally in the "assigning file to |
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> > packages" stage it will produce error text like "<file> not owned |
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> > by any package is broken". |
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> Yes, I know. |
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> > Maybe check your output again? Or run with the -v |
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> > option to see if you get any extra messages? |
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> I swear on a whole barrel of Windhoek Lager that it did not mention |
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> any particular file. The issue is resolved meanwhile (see my other |
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> mail), so I can not reproduce the same output and post it here |
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> anymore. |
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> Uwe |
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One can list binaries known to portage with: |
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cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ |
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If that's compared to /usr/bin/*, orphaned binaries can be identified. |
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