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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions?
Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:57:36
Message-Id: 5bdc1c8b0804071057t559f0541tc2fc43900d39af41@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Old machine update - libexpat upgrade instructions? by Henry Gebhardt
1 On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Henry Gebhardt
2 <hsggebhardt@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
4 > > Am I correct that revdep-rebuild -p --library=libexpat.so.0 will take
5 > > care of finding all the right stuff?
6 >
7 > Even better yet, a plain
8 >
9 > revdep-rebuild -p
10 >
11 > will also find other breakages, not only those related to expat. My
12 > update procedure has looked like this for a couple years now (found it
13 > in the forums way back), and I didn't really notice that expat problem
14 > back whenever :-) :
15 >
16 > eix-sync
17 > emerge -vDuN world
18 > emerge --depclean
19 > revdep-rebuild -v
20 > etc-update
21 >
22
23 Pretty much the same here but this is old hardware and a complete
24 emerge -DuN world would break the machine so until I carefully put
25 some package masking in place I don't want to do that.
26
27 Thanks,
28 Mark
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