Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure?

[Grant]

> > BTW, what should I do about this:
> >
> > # revdep-rebuild -p
> >  * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
> >
> >  * Checking reverse dependencies
> >  * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package
> > update
> >  * will be emerged.
> >
> >  * Collecting system binaries and libraries
> >  * Found existing 1_files.rr
> >  * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> >  * Found existing 2_ldpath.rr.
> >  * Checking dynamic linking consistency
> >  * Found existing 3_broken.rr.
> >  * Assigning files to packages
> >  *  !!! /usr/lib64/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.0.0.0 not owned by any package
> > is broken !!!
> >  *   /usr/lib64/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.0.0.0 -> (none)
> >  *  !!! /usr/lib64/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.11.2 not owned by any
> > package is broken !!!
> >  *   /usr/lib64/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.11.2 -> (none)
> >  * Generated new 4_raw.rr and 4_owners.rr
> >  * Found some broken files, but none of them were associated with
> > known packages
> >  * Unable to proceed with automatic repairs.
> >  * The broken files are listed in 4_owners.rr
>
> These two files:
>
> /usr/lib64/libsvn_ra_neon-1.so.0.0.0
> /usr/lib64/libwebkitgtk-1.0.so.0.11.2
>
> are orphaned. By rights they should have been removed when the packages
> that installed them were removed/upgraded, but that doesn't always
> happen - ebuilds can make changes that portage can't see.
>
> The easy approach is to delete them, and any versioning symlinks that
> point to them in the same dirs, then possibly rebuild the packages that
> provided the originals. That would be subversion and webkit-gtk. Then
> run revdep-rebuild to see if anything complains.

Done except that subversion is not installed.

Also thanks to Neil and Dale.

- Grant