I had a slightly different revdep-rebuild problem and this discussion was
the impetus to uncover the cause. The problem I had was that every time
I ran revdep-rebuild it wanted to rebuild a package that I had removed
and the package name was really weird. At the end of the run it emitted
this command which I have reformatted for easy reading:
emerge --oneshot
=media-tv/-MERGING-mythtv-0.20_p11626
=media-tv/-MERGING-mythtv-0.20_p12172
=app-cdr/cdrkit-1.1.6
=media-libs/xine-lib-1.1.10.1
I didn't have any problem with the last two items, but I could not find
the weird -MERGING-mythtv packages. I did remember having an emerge
problem with MythTV when I first started to try it. After looking around
and not finding a likely suspect, I ran strace -f -o /tmp/revdep.out
revdep-rebuild. After it hung I searched through all the open system
calls and finally found it checking out files in
/var/db/pkg/media-tv.
In the directory media-tv were subdirectories with the -MERGING name.
I removed all the directories in media-tv and reran revdep-rebuild and
all was well.
Thanks for the help!
Steve Herber [EMAIL PROTECTED] work: 206-221-7262
Security Engineer, UW Medicine, IT Services home: 425-454-2399
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008, Beso wrote:
2008/2/28, manuel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hi All,
I've ran revdep-rebuild a couple of times this week and each time i
run it it finds a broken link referred to libqt-mt.so.3 and each
time It emerges
app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs-2007112 to correct the problem!
but the broken link is still there!?? I can't fix it! any ideas?
thanks in advance for your help
Manuel
log in a terminal as user, then do a rm /root/.revdep* and then try again
revdep-rebuild. after you do a revdep-rebuild be always sure that no .revdep
files are present anymore in the /root/ directory. if there are some present
then revdep will continue to cicle through them.
another option would be to run revdep-rebuild -i (which stands for --ignore)
which would ignore the .revdep files in the /root/ directory. i personally
prefer the first option since i know that there aren't any cached revdeped
files. if it continues to cycle on the same rebuild after one rebuild then
it might be the case of a bug like the one of the gcj use flag in gcc-4.1.
try searching on the forum if that might be the case.
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dott. ing. beso
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