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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 17:51:16
Message-Id: CA+czFiCTi5TkAA1otjy0g5eHA0H4X=EXqqNzAXerKPbErvBSXg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries by Thanasis
1 On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > After a recent update of dev-libs/libffi from version 3.0.10 to 3.0.11
3 > the ebuild log suggests to run:
4 >
5 >  # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
6 >
7 > and once finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
8 > delete the old libraries, like so:
9 >
10 >  # rm '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
11 >
12 > However by querying:
13 >
14 > equery b /usr/lib/libffi.so.5
15 >  * Searching for /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 ...
16 > dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5)
17 >
18 > we see that /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5 is reported as belonging to
19 > dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11. Is that normal?
20
21 I think so. It might be clearer if equery omitted the version number,
22 or if it tracked which versions of a package a file belonged to.
23
24 (If I'm wrong, then I suspect you found a bug)
25
26
27 --
28 :wq

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Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>