From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DqkJL-0005zN-Ll for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 08 Jul 2005 04:18:00 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j684GVdk011062; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 04:16:31 GMT Received: from vms040pub.verizon.net (vms040pub.verizon.net [206.46.252.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j684CP4m006997 for ; Fri, 8 Jul 2005 04:12:25 GMT Received: from garath.homelinux.org ([71.96.195.154]) by vms040.mailsrvcs.net (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.2 HotFix 0.04 (built Dec 24 2004)) with ESMTPA id <0IJA001U6JOGDOLT@vms040.mailsrvcs.net> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:12:16 -0500 (CDT) Received: by garath.homelinux.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A49A07A6C8; Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:12:15 -0500 (CDT) Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:12:15 -0500 From: Paul Varner Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild reports broken libs, should I worry? In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <1120795935.19971.6.camel@garath.homelinux.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.1.1 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <003a01c58248$5c686990$5f01010a@jnetlab.lcl> X-Archives-Salt: 5914eff6-6210-4dfd-a936-99c9eca58fa7 X-Archives-Hash: 63f249e4574b8a2597516e286a137ff8 On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:49 -0700, Wade Brown wrote: > In this specific case, "Broken" means "Binary Package". Binary > packages are distributed with all kinds of libraries linked to so that > they can minimize the amount of binary packages they need to maintain > (e.g. they don't need an eclipse-gnome and an eclipse-nognome > package). The program will ideally run as if those features were > disabled at compile time, but usually does spit out a few errors on > console about missing libraries. > > Revdep wanting to rebuild binary packages everytime is a known issue, > and in newer (still masked?) versions there is a specific directory > omission setting to tell it to ignore /opt, and anywhere else there > may be binary packages. If it is still masked as I think, then you > could just $EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take out /opt from the > SEARCH_DIRS variable. > > Anyway, quick answer, No, your packages are not broken, so no worries. The newer revdep-rebuild is in gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre4, that version is not package masked, but it is currently keyworded with the unstable keywords. If you use the newer revdep-rebuild, the variable that you want to set is SEARCH_DIRS_MASK. Regards, Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list