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On Tue, 14 Mar 2017 12:52:07 -0400, |
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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 14/03/2017 17:45, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > After I do an update, I get this message: |
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> > |
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> > !!! existing preserved libs: |
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> > >>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 |
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> > * - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so |
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> > * used by /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1) |
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> > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries |
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> > |
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> > When I do an 'emerge @preserved-rebuild', it re-builds |
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> > binutils-2.25.1, and then shows the same warning again. |
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> > |
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> > I've run @preserved-rebuild 5 or 6 times, sourcing /etc/profile and |
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> > logging out/in between. Still, I always get the same preserved-libs |
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> > warning. |
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> > |
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> > Portage seems upset tht binutils-2.25.1 is using binutils-libs-2.25.1 |
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> > instead of binutils-libs-2.27, but re-emerging binutils-2.25.1 doesn't |
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> > help. |
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> > |
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> |
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> I've run into similar things a few times and never really got to the |
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> bottom of any of them and ldd wasn't very useful either. |
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> |
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> How I have got around it in the past is to stop rebuilding, that just |
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> keeps the crazy loop going as each time the new thing doesn't like the |
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> existing thing. So I emerge -C the offending package and the |
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> dependencies, then emerge both back in so they start from scratch. |
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> |
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> But in this case, removing binutils might be problematic, that's where |
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> your elf tools and linker come from. A workaround comes to mind: |
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> |
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> - quickpkg both packages |
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> - emerge -C both packages |
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> - manually untar both quickpkg archives to their original location. Now |
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> you have all your tools back, without the package metadata to confuse |
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> portage |
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> - emerge both packages, ignoring the expected file collision errors. |
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What I did when I had this, was to unmerge an older version of |
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binutils which I had, seemed no reason to keep it, but do an emerge |
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--depclean on it just to be safe. Once I did that the preserved libs |
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warning went away. |
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