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From: Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild command doesn't fix broken libs it finds
Date: Sun, 02 Mar 2008 08:18:20
Message-Id: 47CA62C6.1080905@bellsouth.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild command doesn't fix broken libs it finds by Bob Young
1 Bob Young wrote:
2 > After a recent emerge -DuN world, messages for one of the packages stated
3 > that it was necessary to run revdep-rebuild after emerging the package, so I
4 > did. The revdep-rebuild ended up merging six packages, with one of them
5 > being gcc. Emerging all six packages took several hours, and I noticed that
6 > gcc by itself took a significant amount of time.
7 >
8 > The final message stated that I could re-run revdep-rebuild to verify that
9 > all inconsistencies had been resolved, unfortunately, I did not add a -p to
10 > the command and to my surprise it spent the next couple of hours or so
11 > emerging gcc again.
12 >
13 > After that finished, I again ran revdep-rebuild although this time with a -p
14 > and below is the output:
15 > << SNIP >>
16 >
17 > How do I determine if this is a case of "orphaned file, deep dependency,
18 > binary package or specially evaluated library" and, if it is one of those,
19 > how do I determine which one, and then how do I fix this...?
20 >
21 > Thanks for listening,
22 > Bob Young
23 > San Jose, CA
24 >
25 >
26
27 This may help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 I'm not
28 sure what changed but mine does not do this any more. I'm using
29 app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 at the moment.
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)
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