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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 17:30:16
Message-Id: sp7vov$hp7$2@ciao.gmane.io
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade by Neil Bothwick
1 On 12/12/2021 18:41, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:11:53 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
3 >
4 >> After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
5 >> emerge --depclean:
6 >>
7 >> Calculating dependencies... done!
8 >> * Broken soname dependencies found:
9 >> *
10 >> * x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
11 >> * app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
12 >> [...]
13 >
14 > Revdep-rebuild won't work because vmware-workstation is a binary package.
15 > You may need to add a file to /etc/revdep-rebuild that adds the vmware
16 > path (somewhere in /opt?) to SEARCH_DIRS_MASK.
17
18 This is already the case:
19
20 SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt/vmware"
21
22 As I said, revdep-rebuild does not find anything to rebuild and prints
23 nothing. It's "emerge --depclean" that shows these messages.