Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libpng12 is missing

[Mick]

On Monday 10 May 2010 23:27:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> > On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote:
> > > > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup.  I see that on my
> > > > > ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1
> > > > > doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with
> > > > > the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the
> > > > > libpng12 header files.
> > > > >
> > > > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can --
> > > > > maybe mask
> > > > >
> > > > >  >1.2.43 in package.mask?
> > > > >
> > > > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report
> > > > > mentioned by Andras.
> > > >
> > > > well I'm getting into a .la hell...
> > > > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and
> > > > therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild...
> > > >
> > > > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all
> > > > .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the
> > > > system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be
> > > > emerged.
> > > >
> > > > 	Rudmer
> > >
> > > run la fixer
> >
> > ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-)
> > well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got
> > them all
> >
> > thanks!
> >
> > 	Rudmer
>
> sadly, it does not get them all.
> The only save way:
> grep -R for png12 and remerge all packages whose files pop up.
>
> For example revdep-rebuilt failed to rebuild pygtk - because of glade. But
>  it never tried to rebuild glade...

Shall I wait to update my box until a safe way through all this is 
established?  I can't afford to break things right now.
-- 
Regards,
Mick