Re: [gentoo-user] a couple of preserved-rebuild problems -- how to fix

[John Covici]

On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 09:32:46 -0500,
Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> On 30/01/2017 13:57, John Covici wrote:
> > On Mon, 30 Jan 2017 03:37:01 -0500,
> > Tuomo Hartikainen wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi John,
> >>
> >> On 2017-01-29 05:11, John Covici wrote:
> >>> Hi.  I am having a couple of preserved rebuild problems which I have
> >>> no idea how to fix.
> >>>
> >>> The first one is like this:
> >>>>>> package: sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27
> >>>  *  - /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so
> >>>   *      used by
> >>>   /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/2.25.1/libopcodes-2.25.1.so
> >>>   (sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1)
> >>
> >> I had this same loop last week, and I found this[1] forum thread
> >> helpful. Apparently on my and janos666's systems the
> >> /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so library was erroneously left behind by a
> >> previous depclean. If you dare, first make sure the library is not owned
> >> by any current package: `equery b /usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so`. If it's
> >> not, removing the file manually should do the trick.
> >>
> >> Remember to take precautions though, khayyam suggests binpkg but I just
> >> took a copy of that library so I could put it back with a rescue system
> >> if binutils broke.
> >>
> >> [1]: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1042488-start-0.html
> >
> > Unfortunately the file is owned by
> > sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27
> >
> > There is a 2.25 version as well.  Now in the binutils itself I have
> > several versions at the same time.
> > But there is no other version of sys-libs/binutils-libs but the 2.27.
> >
> >
>
>
> are you saying that you only have one version of binutils installed
> (2.27)? That seems to be the norm nowadays, the other slots are probably
> for "old stuff"
>
> IUf you have other versions' cruft still lying around in
> /usr/lib64/binutils/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/, then move that junk out the
> way and try again. It's very likely dynamic runtime nonsense that
> depclean didn't know about

I have
[I] sys-devel/binutils
     Available versions:
	     (2.25.1) 2.25.1-r1
		     (2.26.1) (~)2.26.1
			     (2.27) (~)2.27
				     (git)  **9999
					       {cxx multitarget nls static-libs test
						  vanilla zlib}
						       Installed versions:
							  2.25.1-r1(2.25.1)(01:06:59 AM
							  01/11/2017)(cxx nls zlib
							  -multitarget -static-libs -test
							  -vanilla) 2.26.1(2.26.1)(07:16:43
							  AM 12/27/2016)(cxx nls
							  -multitarget -static-libs -test
							  -vanilla) 2.27(2.27)(07:23:40 AM
							  12/27/2016)(cxx nls -multitarget
							  -static-libs -test -vanilla)

But only one version of sys-libs/bin-utils-libs

But I found binutils-config and just switched from 2.25-r1 to 2.27, so
I will see what happens.
So, after removing the old versions of binutils, the preserved-rebuild
problem went away!

Thanks all for all your help on that .  Now I have to somehow deal
with the gst-plugins-ffmpeg.

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         John Covici
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