Dale wrote:
> That's been my experience too. I run @preserved-rebuild when it tells
> me to but revdep-rebuild rarely finds anything. Thing is, it has a
> time or two. It is best to run revdep-rebuild and be sure than not to
> and run the risk of not being able to boot or some other problem that
> bites you. Sort of like a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of
> cure. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Example that revdep-rebuild needs to be run from time to time.
root@fireball / # revdep-rebuild -i -- -a
* 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
* Generated new 1_files.rr
* Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH
* Generated new 2_ldpath.rr
* Checking dynamic linking consistency
[ 100% ]
* broken /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4 (no version information
available)
* broken /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4.9.3 (no version information
available)
* Generated new 3_broken.rr
* Assigning files to packages
* /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4 -> kde-base/kmail
* /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4.9.3 -> kde-base/kmail
* Generated new 4_raw.rr and 4_owners.rr
* Cleaning list of packages to rebuild
* Generated new 4_pkgs.rr
* Assigning packages to ebuilds
* Generated new 4_ebuilds.rr
* Evaluating package order
* Generated new 5_order.rr
* All prepared. Starting rebuild
emerge --complete-graph=y --oneshot --with-bdeps y --backtrack=30
--keep-going -v -j10 --quiet-build=n -1 -a kde-base/kmail:4
..........
These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild R ] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 USE="handbook kontact (-aqua)
-debug {-test}" 0 kB
Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
There's that rare instance right there. First time in a while too.
Dale
:-) :-)
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