Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question

[Mark Knecht]

On 2/19/07, Alan McKinnon <alan@××××××××××××××××.za> wrote:
> On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    I'm not clear why revdep-rebuild is showing lots of broken
> > linkages but then telling me everything is in order and there is no
> > work to do to clean up the system.
> >
> >    I haven't seen this before. What's causing it?
> >
> >    What's the process to get this cleaned up and down to no messages
> > about broken things?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
> My guess would be that portage cannot assign the broken binaries
> (/usr/bin/avibench etc) to an ebuild, and therefore there cannot be
> anything to emerge.
>
> They might be orphan binaries from a previous incomplete unmerge, or
> something locally compiled, or even files installed from a foreign
> package system (.tgz or .rpm perhaps?)
>
> alan
>
>

Alan,
   Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on
each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand
without causing damage?

   I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that
things remained consistent.

Thanks,
Mark
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