Re: [gentoo-user] Re: sound hosed after running python-updater

[John covici]

on Monday 09/01/2008 Matthew R. Lee(gentoo@××××××××××.org) wrote
 > On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
 > > Matthew R. Lee wrote:
 > > > Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice,
 > > > because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to
 > > > run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which
 > > > was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it.
 > >
 > > This should fix it:
 > >
 > >    revdep-rebuild -X -i --ask
 > >
 > > the problem seems to be a link problem with the ALSA lib.  When you hear
 > > "link problem", revdep-rebuild is the solution most of the time.  It
 > > will rebuild packages that use the ALSA lib.
 > 
 > I ran revdep-rebuild last night after the big reemerge it didn't pick anything 
 > up. Just to be sure I re-ran it when I got your email. I doesn't want to 
 > rebuild anything.

I discovered that python-updater can emerge obsolete packages because
it tries to emerge exactly what it had before, so when running it,
emerge by hand  without the = sign and the version numbers -- works
much better that way.

Not sure if this will help, but possibly.

Don't know how the alsa stuff got in python-updater, never heard of
python bindings for that.

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