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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] reverse dependencies
Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 19:34:45
Message-Id: 7573e9640609291224vd88d0benbe728c0d955af3e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] reverse dependencies by kiorky
1 On 9/29/06, kiorky <kiorky@××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > hello i want to know a good tool for reverse dependencies stuff.
3 > for example, gnutls broke my system yesterday but revdep or equery dont
4 > took me all impacted packages. But a ldd on the impacted program show me
5 > my soname (libgnutls.so.*)
6 > so i want to know all packages depending on "/usr/lib/libgnutls.*" for
7
8 What you really want is:
9
10 revdep-rebuild -p --library 'libgnutls.*'
11
12 BTW, you should have seen something like this, either on the screen or
13 in the /var/log/portage/elog/ files (assuming you have ELOG setup for
14 your system!)
15
16 ewarn "You must re-compile all packages that are linked against"
17 ewarn "Gnutls-1.2.11 by using revdep-rebuild from gentoolkit:"
18 ewarn "# revdep-rebuild --library libgnutls.so.12"
19
20 Regards,
21 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] reverse dependencies KiOrKY <kiorky@××××××××××.net>