Re: [gentoo-user] "Broken soname dependencies found" after portage upgrade

[tastytea]

On 2021-12-12 18:11+0200 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.com> wrote:

> After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
> emerge --depclean:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>   * Broken soname dependencies found:
>   *
>   *   x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
>   *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
>   *
>   *   x86_64: libgdbm_compat.so.3 required by:
>   *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
>   *
>   *   x86_64: liblttng-ust.so.0 required by:
>   *     dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-6.0.100
>   *
>   *   x86_64: libreadline.so.6 required by:
>   *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
>   *
>   *   x86_64: libgdbm.so.3 required by:
>   *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
>   *
>   *   x86_64: libbz2.so.1.0 required by:
>   *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
>   *
>  >>> No packages selected for removal by depclean
>
> What does it even mean?

It means the binary wants to load some libraries (like libexpat.so)
portage can't find.

> (And before anyone asks, the software works just fine, and neither
> revdep-rebuild nor revdep-rebuild.sh find anything wrong.)

But vmware (or rather, the linker) seems to find them. Maybe they are in
the same directory as the binary and portage doesn't search there? You
can check which libraries exactly the binary wants to load with ldd.

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