Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
> Here /usr/lib is a symlink to /usr/lib64 Now that you mention it: /usr/lib is supposed to be a symlink to /usr/lib64 on my workstation too (like it is on all my other machines). But it's not. Seems like something went wrong during installation. Maybe a bad stage3 image. I created the symlink man

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/12/2012 01:23:21 PM, Michael Hampicke wrote: > man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. > > Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile. I just ran # find /usr/lib* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -o | more an was suprised how much orphans there are, already excluding

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 1:53 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Hi, > > even the most recent portage  2.2.0_alpha90 has difficulties handling > @preserved-rebuild especially after many binary emerge operations. > It tries to re-emerge the same packages again and again. > As a last resort I have to remov

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Michael Hampicke
> man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. > > Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile. I just ran # find /usr/lib* -type f -print0 | xargs -0 qfile -o | more an was suprised how much orphans there are, already excluding the python and perl stuff. Here's some suprising st

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 12 Mar 2012 09:53:29 +0100, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > Is there an elegant way to find these old libraries? (Removing them > would alert revdep-rebuild afterwards). man qfile and look at the section on finding orphan files. Emerge portage-utils if you don't have qfile. -- Neil Bothwic

[gentoo-user] emerge problem - removing old libraries?

2012-03-12 Thread Helmut Jarausch
Hi, even the most recent portage 2.2.0_alpha90 has difficulties handling @preserved-rebuild especially after many binary emerge operations. It tries to re-emerge the same packages again and again. As a last resort I have to remove /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry. But after that the