Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: news item for png15

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El vie, 14-10-2011 a las 16:48 -0500, Dale escribió:
>> Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>> It shouldn't, I am sure I have used this some times before and it
>>> worked as expected, but I don't know when revdep-rebuild cache files
>>> are removed (and then, broken packages recalculated) :-/ Any
>>> revdep-rebuild maintainer here to clarify this please? Thanks :)
>> I always run revdep-rebuild with the -i option. It starts fresh each
>> time or is supposed to anyway.  This is a snipped list of what was
>> rebuilt the first time and that it says it wants to rebuild again as I
>> just ran it again:
>>
>>    <<<   SNIPPED>>>
>> That list is identical to the first time I ran it.  I don't know what
>> you were expecting but this is what it does.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
> Well, I would expect it to properly recalculate broken packages after
> previous run that failed to complete to build failures

 From my understanding, it looks for what packages link/use/whatever the 
library then it rebuilds them all.  I guess this is one way to catch 
them all for sure but it is sort of difficult to know what was already 
fixed and what is still broke.

I think I see what you are expecting and I wish it was that way but it 
appears we are not getting what we want with this.  Is it doable, maybe, 
but not at the moment.  By the way, I run the unstable versions of those 
tools.

I guess if the emerge fails, then one would have to use the --resume 
option to try to rebuild packages or just rebuild what fails by hand and 
hope you don't miss anything.

Dale

:-)  :-)