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From: "Abraham Marín Pérez" <tecnic5@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 10:07:04
Message-Id: 46B6F0FA.20009@silvanoc.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency? by Remy Blank
1 Remy Blank escribió:
2 > Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
3 >
4 >> Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1,
5 >> but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep
6 >> update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause
7 >> broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However,
8 >> is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this
9 >> problem*.
10 >>
11 >
12 > That's what revdep-rebuild is for. Update your LIB, run revdep-rebuild,
13 > and if APP is really broken by the LIB update (it doesn't have to be),
14 > it will be rebuilt.
15 >
16 > -- Remy
17 >
18 >
19 That is indeed true, however, it will always be better keeping things
20 right than breaking and fixing as a rule, don't you think?
21
22 Abraham
23
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[gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency? Remy Blank <remy.blank@×××××.com>