On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Arttu V. <arttu...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 3/11/10, Mark Knecht <markkne...@gmail.com> wrote: >> to determine whether this package provides it. I cannot do that as I >> don't have lzma-utils on my systems anymore. > > Well, that can be sort of done with, e.g.: > > ebuild /usr/portage/app-arch/lzma-utils/lzma-utils-4.32.7.ebuild install > > It will run emerge phases until the system creates the installation > image, but it won't merge the files into their proper locations in the > file system. Listing files in the image directory shows all the five > liblzmadec.* files (or symlinks) that would get installed. > >> If you don't have lzma-utils on your system anymore then erase >> /usr/lib64/liblzmadec.la by hand and run revdep-rebuild -ip again and >> see if it's clean. > > Yes, this whole issue smells like an overblown orphaned .la-file > issue. Package manager cannot help much with such, and IMHO it's not a > bug (well maybe in the package manager, but let's not start that > flamewar ;) ). > > Anyway, if it were me I'd nuke the file in a heartbeat, but if OP is > too timid for that, he can also quarantine the file first, i.e., move > it to some other path where it won't cause trouble (and then delete > later). Also, (from the bug) his libarchive.la seems to still list the > .la, so he should re-emerge libarchive after moving away the orphaned > .la-file (or use lafilefixer?). > > Still, there is something funny with paludis, as so many people using > it seem to have so many problems with orphaned libtool archive files. > Ahem, even the warning from exherbo front page is gone nowadays. Is it > production quality now? o.O > > -- > Arttu V.
Hi Arttu, I agree with pretty much everything you say although I don't know anything about plaudis so nothing at all to say about that. I think the OP could also do equery depends /usr/lib64/liblzmadec.la and if that shows nothing is depending on it then it's certainly an orphaned file and can be deleted. (Or safely moved...) I went through a period maybe 3-6 months ago where it seems I had a dozen of these orphaned files on all my systems. I cleaned them up, ran emerge -DuN world revdep-rebuild -i eix-test-obsolete -d and have been very clean since. Anyway, I do think it's a really big deal. He'll work his way through it. Cheers, Mark
