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From: walt <w41ter@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...
Date: Sat, 06 Jun 2009 16:23:59
Message-Id: h0e55v$t3h$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] can fix preserved-rebuild ... by William Kenworthy
1 William Kenworthy wrote:
2 > After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly
3 > increases (up to 185 now). so far I have done the suggested "emerge
4 > @preserved-rebuild", plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but
5 > after building, there is no change ...
6 >
7 > !!! existing preserved libs:
8 >>>> package: dev-libs/libusb-0.1.12-r5
9 > * - /lib/libusb.so
10 > * used by /lib/udev/check-mtp-device (media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.3)
11 > * used by /usr/bin/dfutool (net-wireless/bluez-utils-3.36)
12 > * used by /usr/bin/evolution (mail-client/evolution-2.26.2)
13 > * used by 185 other files
14 >>>> package: x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.5
15 > * - /usr/lib/libXaw.so.8
16 > * - /usr/lib/libXaw8.so
17 > * - /usr/lib/libXaw8.so.8
18 > * - /usr/lib/libXaw8.so.8.0.0
19 > * used by /usr/bin/xgpsspeed (sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.38)
20 > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
21 > rattus ~ #
22
23 Are you using an unstable version of gentoo, e.g. ~x86 or ~amd64? The
24 only reason I know of for 'preserving' an old version is if there is also
25 a newer one, i.e. libusb-1.0.1, which is a ~ version.
26
27 On my ~amd64 machine I had both libusb-0.1.12-r5 and libusb-1.0.1.
28 I just deleted the 0.1.12 and revdep-rebuild found and rebuilt usbutils,
29 hal, and sane-backends with no problems, so there seems to be no reason
30 to have the old version unless you perhaps have the new version masked
31 on your machine for some reason?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ... Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>