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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] persistent broken dynamic link notice from revdep-rebuild
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 00:09:27
Message-Id: 20070318000316.0d65f53f@krikkit.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] persistent broken dynamic link notice from revdep-rebuild by "de Almeida
1 On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:12:24 -0400, de Almeida, Valmor F. wrote:
2
3 > As part of the final stage of a long upgrade from profile 2005.1 to
4 > 2006.1, I get many messages from revdep-rebuild of broken links to files
5 > that are not part of any installed package but were in the past. For
6 > instance:
7 >
8 > broken /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.1.8/modules-Q16/coders/art.la (requires
9 > /-lstdc++)
10 >
11 > As part of World, imagemagick-6.3.0.5-r1 is now installed and the file
12 > art.la is found at
13 >
14 > /usr/lib/ImageMagick-6.3.0/modules-Q16/coders/art.la
15
16 If you run fix_libtool_files.sh, it modifies a number of .la files. As a
17 result, these files are removed when their parent package is unmerged
18 because their checksums no longer match the package's CONTENTS file. This
19 isn't an issue if you have upgraded the package and it has overwritten
20 the .la files with new versions, but when they move to a different
21 location, or if you remove the package altogether, that are left lying
22 around.
23
24 As you have determined the files no longer belong to a package, it is
25 quite safe to remove them.
26
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28 --
29 Neil Bothwick
30
31 Windows booting: insert CD-ROM 2.

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