it would have been simpler to stop upgradign world and revdep-rebuild with the upgrade all option after the first packages of the upgrade world would have died. it would have taken you less headache and less stress.
2007/8/15, David Fellows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, 15 Aug 2007 08:37:32 -0400 > "Mark Haney" wrote - > > > > > > > > Sadly the revdep rebuild didn't work on my apps. In fact just manually > > emerging the apps I need NOW still bomb looking for libexpat.so.0. I'm > > lost. > > My experience was that gtk+ would not emerge becaue it checked for a > working > pango, the pango emerge failed because a test would not run apparently due > to some program needing libexpat.so.0. > > What I did: > > Downgraded expat. > Copied the newly made /usr/lib64/libexpat.so.0.5.0 to a safe place, > noted that libexpat.so.0 is a symlink to it. > Upgraded expat. > Copied the saved libexpat.so.0.5.0 to /usr/lib64 > Made a symlink from it to /usr/lib/libexpat.so.0 > Continued my emerge world which then went smoothly. > Removed the libexpat.so.0 and 0.5.0 > Did revdep-rebuild -p to pick up all the other stuff that needed to be > rebuilt. > Put so.0 and 0.5.0 back again > Did revdep-rebuild. > Removed so.0 and 0..5.0 yet again > Did revdep-rebuild -p for a final check, which was clean > > Yuck! All this for a "stable" upgrade to a mostly stable system. > > You might also be able to bull your way through with --skipfirst. Then > repeat > until everything is emerged. > > Hope this helps. > > Dave F > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- dott. ing. beso
