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From: Graham Murray <graham@gmurray.org.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Thoughts about broken package handling
Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 17:44:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o3busu7.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110627064517.3fa0e123@googlemail.com> (Ciaran McCreesh's message of "Mon, 27 Jun 2011 06:45:17 +0100")

Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com> writes:

> The fix for that is to slot things properly. You're screwed anyway if a
> preserved library tries to access installed data that has either been
> removed or upgraded to a new format that it doesn't recognise.

Or some "awkward" packages which when rebuilt will still link against
the preserved library, but if the preserved library is deleted and the
package manually rebuild will link against the new one. 



  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-27 16:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-26  2:59 [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling Stuart Longland
2011-06-26  4:23 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-06-26  5:44 ` [gentoo-dev] " Benedikt Böhm
2011-06-26  5:53   ` Kent Fredric
2011-06-26 12:27   ` Stuart Longland
2011-06-26 12:41     ` Patrick Lauer
2011-06-26 14:31     ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2011-06-26 14:42       ` Fabian Groffen
2011-06-27  3:31         ` Duncan
2011-06-27  5:45         ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-27 16:44           ` Graham Murray [this message]
2011-06-28  4:54             ` Kent Fredric
2011-06-28  6:17               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-28 11:25                 ` Peter Volkov
2011-06-28  6:51               ` [gentoo-dev] REMOVE Stelios Boulios
     [not found]               ` <19112.5501798981$1309243833@news.gmane.org>
2011-06-28  8:14                 ` [gentoo-dev] REMOVE Duncan
2011-06-26  6:51 ` [gentoo-dev] Thoughts about broken package handling Kent Fredric
2011-06-26 11:48 ` Thomas Sachau
2011-06-26 12:34   ` Stuart Longland
2011-06-29 12:25   ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2011-06-26 15:30 ` Philip Webb
2011-06-26 23:49 ` Stefan Behte

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