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On 25/08/2015 04:28, Fernando Rodriguez wrote: |
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> On Monday, August 24, 2015 9:31:38 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> Does anyone have an opinion to offer on bug 501468? |
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>> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=501468 |
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>> It's been annoying me for a week now with this message: |
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>> !!! existing preserved libs: |
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>>>>> package: www-client/firefox-40.0.2 |
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>> * - /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozalloc.so |
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>> * used by /usr/lib64/thunderbird/components/libdbusservice.so |
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>> (mail-client/thunderbird-38.2.0) |
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>> * used by /usr/lib64/thunderbird/components/libmozgnome.so |
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>> (mail-client/thunderbird-38.2.0) |
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>> * used by |
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>> /usr/lib64/thunderbird/distribution/extensions/{e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad- |
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> a41df1933103}/components/libcalbasecomps.so |
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>> (mail-client/thunderbird-38.2.0) |
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>> * used by 4 other files |
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>> Both Mozilla products ship this file: |
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>> $ locate libmozalloc |
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>> /usr/lib64/firefox/libmozalloc.so |
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>> /usr/lib64/thunderbird/libmozalloc.so |
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>> and according to preserved libs, thunderbird linked to the firefox copy. |
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>> The only offered solution on the bug is to use a MASK variable, which |
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>> seems to me an ugly hammer to swat a fly. |
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>> I was wondering if there's a better way been developed in the last year. |
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> Actually, now I have a general idea of what's going on and that sounds like an |
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> acceptable solution but perhaps I could be better. This is what happens: |
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> 1. revdep-rebuild uses ldd to find breakage. It finds breakage in |
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> libdbusservice.so because firefox uses tricks to preload the library from it's |
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> directory. |
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> 2. revdep-rebuild find that thunderbird provides the library and thinks it |
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> needs to be rebuild. (And wrongly tells you that firefox links against it). |
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> A better way would be: |
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> 1. same as step 1 above |
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> 2. revdep-rebuild checks the package that provides the broken binary (in this |
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> case the firefox package), if this package also provides the missing library |
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> then it's safe to ignore the problem. |
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> 3. same as step 2 above. |
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> Another solution is to make patch firefox to use RPATH so ldd can find the |
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> labraries, this would also make prelink work better with firefox but it's |
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> probably not ideal to mantain. |
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that does make sense. In my case, it's not revdep-rebuild causing |
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problems, it's the preserved-rebuild message at the end of emerge -v |
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At this level is there a difference? |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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