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From: Bill Longman <bill.longman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:31:04
Message-Id: 4C2BB773.7000701@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4 by Mick
1 On 06/30/2010 02:17 PM, Mick wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:56:56 Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 >> Seems like the horrendous screw-up that was the libpng-1.4 update never got
4 >> fixed properly and is hitting stable users now.
5 >>
6 >> Flameeyes, in his usual in-your-face style, has documented what needs to be
7 >> done:
8 >>
9 >> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2010/06/29/stable-users-libpng-update
10 >>
11 >> If you are a stable user, save yourself a lot of trouble over the next few
12 >> days, read his blog and do what he says. He has this uncanny ability of
13 >> almost always being correct on technical toolchain matters
14 >
15 > Blast! I emerged media-libs/libpng-1.4.3 only 2 days ago and ... I followed
16 > what the elog told me which was to run the very scrip that Flameeyes says it
17 > causes long term problems! O_O
18 >
19 > This is what I have in terms of libpng* (on an amd64 system):
20 >
21 > # ls -la /usr/lib/libpng*
22 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.a
23 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng14.la
24 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so ->
25 > libpng14.so.14.3.0
26 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14 ->
27 > libpng14.so.14.3.0
28 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng14.so.14.3.0
29 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.a -> libpng14.a
30 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib/libpng.la
31 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib/libpng.so -> libpng14.so
32 >
33 > # ls -la /usr/lib64/libpng*
34 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 236422 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.a
35 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng14.la
36 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so ->
37 > libpng14.so.14.3.0
38 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 18 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 ->
39 > libpng14.so.14.3.0
40 > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 158400 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14.3.0
41 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.a -> libpng14.a
42 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 935 Jun 28 12:57 /usr/lib64/libpng.la
43 > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Jun 28 12:56 /usr/lib64/libpng.so -> libpng14.so
44 >
45 > Is this OK? What now?
46
47 Just run revdep-rebuild --keep-going a few times with a lafilefixer
48 thrown in here and there for good measure. If you're really paranoid,
49 you'll recompile all libpng's dependencies....

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