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From: John Covici <covici@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 11:57:38
Message-Id: m3vaswbw0r.wl-covici@ccs.covici.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix by Tuomo Hartikainen
1 On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 03:37:01 -0500,
2 Tuomo Hartikainen wrote:
3 >
4 > Hi John,
5 >
6 > On 2017-01-29 05:11, John Covici wrote:
7 > > Hi. I am having a couple of preserved rebuild problems which I have
8 > > no idea how to fix.
9 > >
10 > > The first one is like this:
11 > > >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27
12 > > * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so
13 > > * used by
14 > > /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so
15 > > (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1)
16 >
17 > I had this same loop last week, and I found this[1] forum thread
18 > helpful. Apparently on my and janos666's systems the
19 > /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so library was erroneously left behind by a
20 > previous depclean. If you dare, first make sure the library is not owned
21 > by any current package: `equery b /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so`. If it's
22 > not, removing the file manually should do the trick.
23 >
24 > Remember to take precautions though, khayyam suggests binpkg but I just
25 > took a copy of that library so I could put it back with a rescue system
26 > if binutils broke.
27 >
28 > [1]: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1042488-start-0.html
29
30 Unfortunately the file is owned by
31 sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27
32
33 There is a 2.25 version as well. Now in the binutils itself I have
34 several versions at the same time.
35 But there is no other version of sys-libs/binutils-libs but the 2.27.
36
37
38 --
39 Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is:
40 How do
41 you spend it?
42
43 John Covici
44 covici@××××××××××.com

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Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>