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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild find broken links, but doesn't fix them.
Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 03:10:46
Message-Id: 7573e9640606271956g47341da4k984b53958be28acd@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild find broken links, but doesn't fix them. by gentuxx
1 On 6/27/06, gentuxx <gentuxx@×××××.com> wrote:
2 > was having, but not sure.) And, why isn't revdep-rebuild rebuilding them?
3
4 The typical reason for this is that the borken files are no longer
5 owned by any installed package. For example, if you upgraded to KDE
6 3.5, and removed all 3.4 packages, anything in /usr/kde/3.4/ would not
7 be owned by any package.
8
9 Since these are .la files, what most likely happened is that a
10 fix_libtoo_files.sh run modified the files, changing their mtime and
11 md5 checksums, so they were not removed by portage when you cleaned
12 KDE 3.4, as portage will not remove files that were modified since
13 installation.
14
15 Verify that the files in /usr/kde/3.4 are not owned by any package
16 with "equery belongs", and if not, they should be safe to delete.
17
18 -Richard
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