From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2879 invoked by uid 1002); 28 Mar 2003 15:14:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 12888 invoked from network); 28 Mar 2003 15:14:55 -0000 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2003 08:14:53 -0700 From: Alain Penders To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20030328151453.GC4478@purematrix.com> Mail-Followup-To: Alain Penders , gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <200303260139.33248.wigren@home.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200303260139.33248.wigren@home.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Organisation: RexOrient.com Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Destroying dependancies... X-Archives-Salt: 3deb5dec-7d4e-453a-8162-ce57aa8fa809 X-Archives-Hash: 6826b92e88e6751b8a29a420bfdb9e8d On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 01:39:31AM +0100, Per Wigren wrote: > Yesterday, for about 30 hours all my newly recieved mail went to /dev/null > because of a portage limitation... > I have an old computes which acts as a firewall/router, ftpserver webserver > and mailserver with IMAP and spamassassin... I have "mysql" in my USE-flags > on said server.. Yesterday portage upgraded MySQL from 3.23.56 to 4.0.12.. > postfix and maildrop both linked to /usr/lib/libmysqlclient.so.10 which went > away when MySQL was upgraded.. When the still running postfix delivered the > mail using dropmail, dropmail just died with "error while loading shared > libraries: no such file or directory" and for some reason (I'd call it a bug > in postfix) it didn't defer them, they just went to /dev/null... > Anyway, I won't whine about it.. Instead I'm looking into finding a solution > for the REAL problem... The problem is that portage doesn't do reverse dependancy checking. It needs to check that a package doesn't break another package that depends on it before doing an upgrade... and if it does break something, propose upgrading those packages as well. Alain -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list