Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild keeps repeating the same steps

[Alan McKinnon]

On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:41:36 +0200
1126 <mailinglists@××××××××××××××××××.de> wrote:

> Hello list!
>
> When I run revdep-rebuild, it keeps repeating the same steps over and
> over again.
>
> Here is what I mean:
>
>  * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
>
>  * Checking reverse dependencies
>  * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package
> update
>  * will be emerged.
>
>  * Collecting system binaries and libraries
>  * Generated new 1_files.rr
>  * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
>  * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr
>  * Checking dynamic linking consistency
> [ 36% ]  *   broken /usr/lib32/libavdevice.so.53.4.100 (requires
> libpulse-simple.so.0
> libpulse.so.0)
> [ 100% ]
>  * Generated new 3_broken.rr
>  * Assigning files to packages
>  *   /usr/lib32/libavdevice.so.53.4.100 ->
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs
>  * Generated new 4_raw.rr and 4_owners.rr
>  * Cleaning list of packages to rebuild
>  * Generated new 4_pkgs.rr
>  * Assigning packages to ebuilds
>  * Generated new 4_ebuilds.rr
>  * Evaluating package order
>  * Generated new 5_order.rr
>  * All prepared. Starting rebuild
> emerge --complete-graph=y --oneshot
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs:0 ..........
> Calculating dependencies... done!

[snip]

> When I would re-run it right now, it would again complain about
> libavdevice and would again re-emerge
> app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-medialibs..
>
> Has anyone any idea how to fix this?

You can't.

emul-linux-x86-medialibs is a prebuilt binary and wants pulse libs
which you don;t have. You can't change the emul packages easily, so
just tell revdep-rebuild to ignore them. Put this in 
/etc/revdep-rebuild/99revdep-rebuild:


 SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/usr/lib32 /lib32"


-- 
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com