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From: Jorma Airola <juggernautfin@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2009 08:51:37
Message-Id: 4AAF55A0.20306@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system by Alan McKinnon
1 Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Tuesday 15 September 2009 09:49:39 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
3 >
4 >> On 15 Sep, Neil Bothwick wrote:
5 >>
6 >
7 >
8 >>> To completely get rid of libxcb-xlib.so references, please read :
9 >>> http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/libxcb-1.4-upgrade-guide.xml
10 >>>
11 >> Since my browser got broken, too, this took some time.
12 >> And following that advice takes even much more time, since
13 >> I have to rebuild half of my system.
14 >>
15 >> Luckily it has 4 cores,
16 >> Helmut.
17 >>
18 >>
19 >
20 > The gods must be favouring me for a change. I'm completely unaffected by this
21 > upgrade :-)
22 >
23 > $ sudo /var/portage/x11-libs/libxcb/files/xcb-rebuilder.sh
24 > Password:
25 > * Fixing broken libtool archives (.la)
26 > * Scanning for libraries requiring libxcb-xlib.so...
27 > * No broken libraries detected
28 >
29 > I wonder what I did different?
30 >
31 >
32 Same here, no breakage on my laptop or desktop.
33
34 I have used dev-util/lafilefixer few time with "--justfixit" option
35 few times,could that be the reason for smooth upgrade?

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Re: [gentoo-user] *** WARNING *** - upgrade to libxcb-1.4 (-r1) breaks your system Ward Poelmans <wpoely86@×××××.com>