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On Saturday 26 September 2009, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 20:58:35 +0700, Robin Atwood wrote: |
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> > I had exactly the same problem. I solved it by deleting |
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> > /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry with no ill effects (since |
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> > revdep- rebuild was clean). |
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> No apparent ill effects. You now have the old, orphaned version of the |
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> library on your system and unknown to portage. Portage deletes these |
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> after emerge @preserved-rebuild has successfully re-emerged packages |
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> depending on it. |
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I checked with ldd what was needed and it looked OK. Also, revdep-rebuild will |
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report libraries that have no owner as "broken". |
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# equery f readline |
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* Searching for readline ... |
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* Contents of sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3: |
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/lib64 |
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/lib64/libreadline.so -> libreadline.so.5 |
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/lib64/libreadline.so.5 -> libreadline.so.5.2 |
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/lib64/libreadline.so.5.2 |
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/lib64/libreadline.so.6 -> libreadline.so.6.0 |
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/lib64/libreadline.so.6.0 |
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/lib64/libreadline.so.5.2 is part of the current package and doesn't need to |
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be preserved, which I guess is why you can re-emerge kalgebra forever and the |
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preserved registry never gets updated. |
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HTH |
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-Robin |
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Robin Atwood. |
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"Ship me somewheres east of Suez, where the best is like the worst, |
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Where there ain't no Ten Commandments an' a man can raise a thirst" |
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from "Mandalay" by Rudyard Kipling |
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