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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2021 16:42:25
Message-Id: 20211212164155.25dad84b@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:11:53 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2
3 > After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
4 > emerge --depclean:
5 >
6 > Calculating dependencies... done!
7 > * Broken soname dependencies found:
8 > *
9 > * x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
10 > * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
11 > *
12 > * x86_64: libgdbm_compat.so.3 required by:
13 > * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
14 > *
15 > * x86_64: liblttng-ust.so.0 required by:
16 > * dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-6.0.100
17 > *
18 > * x86_64: libreadline.so.6 required by:
19 > * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
20 > *
21 > * x86_64: libgdbm.so.3 required by:
22 > * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
23 > *
24 > * x86_64: libbz2.so.1.0 required by:
25 > * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
26 > *
27 > >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
28 >
29 > What does it even mean?
30 >
31 > (And before anyone asks, the software works just fine, and neither
32 > revdep-rebuild nor revdep-rebuild.sh find anything wrong.)
33
34 Revdep-rebuild won't work because vmware-workstation is a binary package.
35 You may need to add a file to /etc/revdep-rebuild that adds the vmware
36 path (somewhere in /opt?) to SEARCH_DIRS_MASK.
37
38
39 --
40 Neil Bothwick
41
42 We are upping our standards - so up yours.

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[gentoo-user] Re: "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>