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From: Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 18:19:42
Message-Id: 4FBA8675.5010900@asyr.hopto.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries by Michael Mol
1 on 05/21/2012 08:49 PM Michael Mol wrote the following:
2 > On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
3 >> After a recent update of dev-libs/libffi from version 3.0.10 to 3.0.11
4 >> the ebuild log suggests to run:
5 >>
6 >> # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
7 >>
8 >> and once finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
9 >> delete the old libraries, like so:
10 >>
11 >> # rm '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
12 >>
13 >> However by querying:
14 >>
15 >> equery b /usr/lib/libffi.so.5
16 >> * Searching for /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 ...
17 >> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5)
18 >>
19 >> we see that /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5 is reported as belonging to
20 >> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11. Is that normal?
21 >
22 > I think so. It might be clearer if equery omitted the version number,
23 > or if it tracked which versions of a package a file belonged to.
24
25 So, are you saying that libffi.so.5 does *not* actually belong to
26 dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 ?
27
28 >
29 > (If I'm wrong, then I suspect you found a bug)
30 >
31 >

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries Markos Chandras <hwoarang@g.o>