Re: [gentoo-amd64] revdep-rebuild keep on detecting a broken link referred to libqt-mt.so.3

[David Fellows <fellows@unb.ca>]

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 10:02:20 +0100 
manuel wrote -
> 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

Try 
  emerge -uvp app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs

to see if there is a newer version available. If so, do
    emerge -uv app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-soundlibs  
to install it.

You might get cyclic dependencies reported. If they are among binary 
packages then you can  safely force emerging with the --nodeps option.

I think revdep-rebuild's logic does not apply to binary packages. It assumes
that emerging will result in relinking which does not happen for a binary 
package. You need to get a newer one with the new linking already done.

Taking the emerge command from revdep-rebuild -p and replacing the 
= with >= probably will achieve the same end.

Dave F
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