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<whinging> |
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Revdep-rebuild seems to be the poor stepchild of the portage system. |
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There's |
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probably a good reason for it, but it sure is annoying. Moreover, my past |
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experiences with it were that it was never entirely happy and I always had |
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to leave my system in a state I considered unsatisfactory. |
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</whinging> |
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This time it's kalarm causing me to try it. Kalarm apparently had a |
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disagreement |
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with kdepim about who would be emerged, resulting in 200-some error dialogs |
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greeting me each morning. So I unmerged them both and emerged only kalarm, |
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and thought things were fixed. But sure enough, this morning there were 215 |
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such crash dialogs complaining about SIGFPE. I have no clue why the first |
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one didn't just kill off kalarm, but that's a different issue. The bright |
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side is that |
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aside from issuing all these dialogs, kalarm seems to be functioning. How |
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odd. |
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Anyway, in pursuit of getting it cleaned up, I tried revdep-rebuild, which |
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can |
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catch some of those odd dependency thingies. |
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It reported a bunch of problems with KDE itself. Mostly with old versions, |
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so I'd like to unmerge them. But I'm a bit unsure how to do that. Do I |
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have to |
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unmerge the component packages one by one, or is there some way to |
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name all of the components of KDE 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4 with one or three |
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collective |
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names? |
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Even if I do this, there remain some current complaints from revdep-rebuild: |
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broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libkaddrbk_geo_xxport.so (requires |
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libkabinterfaces.so.1) |
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broken /usr/kde/3.5/lib/kde3/libkaddrbk_gmx_xxport.so (requires |
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libkabinterfaces.so.1) |
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Plus some relating to openoffice-bin (I'm going to see if switching to plain |
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openoffice helps) |
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and one relating to perl that stumps me because it comes from the |
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imagemagick package |
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itself, and so presumably should know what version of its own libraries to |
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use: |
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broken |
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/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.7/i686-linux/auto/Image/Magick/Magick.so |
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(requires libMagick.so.6) |
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I guess I'll re-emerge imagemagick and see if it helps. |
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<more complaining> |
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This whole area seems a lot less automated than most of the portage stuff. |
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I know gentoo is a DIY type distribution, but this proceedure looks to me |
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like |
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a magnet for operator error (not to mention confusion) and could use some |
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attention. |
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</more complaining> |
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Anyway, I could use some more help diagnosing problems with Kalarm, |
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and in figuring out how to ditch old slotted packages. |
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++ kevin |
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-- |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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