Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Remy Blank <remy.blank@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency?
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:17:44
Message-Id: f96okh$drr$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency? by "Abraham Marín Pérez"
1 Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
2 > Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1,
3 > but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep
4 > update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause
5 > broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However,
6 > is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this
7 > problem*.
8
9 That's what revdep-rebuild is for. Update your LIB, run revdep-rebuild,
10 and if APP is really broken by the LIB update (it doesn't have to be),
11 it will be rebuilt.
12
13 -- Remy

Attachments

File name MIME type
signature.asc application/pgp-signature

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: portage inconsistency? "Abraham Marín Pérez" <tecnic5@××××××××.com>