Re: [gentoo-user] Stable users: libpng-1.4

[Dale]

Philip Webb wrote:
> 100630 Willie Wong wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>
>>> unmerge libpng
>>> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
>>> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
>>> same with revdep-rebuild
>>> re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to merge
>>> emerge -avuND world
>>> revdep-rebuild
>>> repeat till no problems reported
>>> lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix just for good measure.
>>>
>> Am I just extremely lucky or something?
>> libpng was installed, slotted on Tuesday May 11 nothing broke.
>> Didn't run lafilefixer, but did run revdep-rebuild a few times
>> and two deep world updates since then.
>> Should I let my breath out now, or should I not be surprised
>> if this "problem" hits a few weeks down the road?
>>
> My experience spread over  2 days  was fairly straightforward.
> (1) Emerged Libpng 1.4.3 ; (2) 'revdep-rebuild' showed  42  rebuilds,
> some of which wouldn't compile ; (3) 'lafilefixer --justfixit' helped ;
> (4) 'r-r' showed a much shorter list ; (5) KDE (3 or 4) wouldn't start,
> so re-merge Qt3 Kdelibs3&  Ksokoban Kmahjongg3 Kworldclock ;
> (6) re-merged Qt4 (9 pkgs) Kdelibs4 Speedcrunch ; (7) along the way,
> a few other pkgs needed re-merging, eg Openmotif for Xpdf ;
> (8) Xulrunner&  Openoffice were listed by 'r-r', but seem ok asis ;
> (9) I deleted the Libpng '12' lib, which is now obsolete.
>
> HTH anyone else updating: just allow a few hours for re-merging.
>
>

I'm not alone then.  My KDE wouldn't start either.  Actually, kdm 
wouldn't start.  Sort of have to have one to get to the other.  I didn't 
like the idea of not having my GUI either.  :-(

I didn't run lafilefixer on mine but all my packages compiled on the 
first try.  I had 45 or so to compile on here.  Weird.  I was expecting 
at least one to fail.

Dale

:-)  :-)