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On Sunday 16 May 2010 22:45:55 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 2:43 PM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> >> On Sunday 16 May 2010 18:18:09 Kevin O'Gorman wrote: |
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> >> > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com> |
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> >> |
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> >> wrote: |
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> >> <major snippage> |
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> >> > Oh, and one more thing showed up last night. I reemerged udev, and |
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> >> noticed |
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> >> |
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> >> > that the ebuild printed a message to the effect that if it doesn't |
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> >> > work, |
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> >> |
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> >> I |
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> >> > should try emerging hal first. Leaving aside the non-effective |
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> >> language, I |
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> >> > tried that and although hal is installed, I can no longer build it. |
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> >> |
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> >> This |
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> >> > may turn out to be the most important thing. It turns out I can't |
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> >> compile |
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> >> |
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> >> > the latest wireshark either. Maybe something is hosed deep down. It |
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> >> |
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> >> may |
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> >> > be time to go down the "emptytree" road again, but it took 2 weeks |
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> >> > last time, and was a major PITA. |
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> >> I don't know if you have been following the "libpng12 is missing" |
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> >> thread, but |
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> >> for good measure you may want to try lafilefixer --justfixit and revdep- |
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> >> rebuild -p -v -i a number of times first. On two machines of mine (x86) |
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> >> there |
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> >> was no problem. On another (amd64) I had to go through the pain of |
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> >> emerge -e |
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> >> world. |
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> >> I just did the lafixer thing and was astonished at how many .la files it |
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> > said it was |
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> > fixing. Seems like my system should have been dead outright.... |
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> > Now I'm off to a bunch of revdep-rebuilds. |
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> > Hope this works, because I really *do not* want to emerge -e world |
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> > (again). |
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> > I've got to ask, though, what good a revdep-rebuild does with the -p |
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> (pretend) flag. |
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> Am I missing something here? |
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You're not missing anything. It's a cautionary step only. If you are about |
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to do something with the machine and remerging the whole universe would be |
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inconvenient at this moment in time, or you may want to reconsider/change some |
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of your settings, then --pretend will give you this chance. I've made the |
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habit of using it almost without thinking, but you can of course not use it, |
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or substitute it with -a. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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