Re: [gentoo-user] Re: can fix preserved-rebuild ...

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Sat, 2009-06-06 at 19:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Saturday 06 June 2009 18:23:26 walt wrote:
> > William Kenworthy wrote:
> > > After each update, these appear, and for libusb, the number slowly
> > > increases (up to 185 now).  so far I have done the suggested "emerge
> > > @preserved-rebuild", plus tried rebuilding every package mentioned but
> > > after building, there is no change ...
> > >
> > > !!! existing preserved libs:
> > >>>> package: dev-libs/libusb-0.1.12-r5
> > >
> > >   *  - /lib/libusb.so
> > >   *      used by /lib/udev/check-mtp-device (media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.3)
> > >   *      used by /usr/bin/dfutool (net-wireless/bluez-utils-3.36)
> > >   *      used by /usr/bin/evolution (mail-client/evolution-2.26.2)
> > >   *      used by 185 other files
> > >
> > >>>> package: x11-libs/libXaw-1.0.5
> > >
> > >   *  - /usr/lib/libXaw.so.8
> > >   *  - /usr/lib/libXaw8.so
> > >   *  - /usr/lib/libXaw8.so.8
> > >   *  - /usr/lib/libXaw8.so.8.0.0
> > >   *      used by /usr/bin/xgpsspeed (sci-geosciences/gpsd-2.38)
> > > Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
> > > rattus ~ #
> >
> > Are you using an unstable version of gentoo, e.g. ~x86 or ~amd64?  The
> > only reason I know of for 'preserving' an old version is if there is also
> > a newer one, i.e. libusb-1.0.1, which is a ~ version.
> >
rattus ~ # equery l libusb
 * Searching for libusb ...
 * installed packages:
[I--] [  ] dev-libs/libusb-0.1.12-r5 (0)
rattus ~ #

> > ...
> 
> As for the OP, I can only guess what might be causing this. Let's start with 
> obvious stuff:
> 
> 1. Is portage the latest version for your arch?
> 2. What does revdep-rebuild return?
> 3. What is your arch, and is it a mixture of stable and ~?

The system is quite a few years old - the original install was ~2000,
and has quite a few hardware upgrades/rebuilds in between.  Current (for
at least a couple of years) cpu is amd athlon barton 2500+.

Software is a mix of stable, ~x86 and pinned (mostly particular ~x86 at
the time) working versions to avoid some of the upgrade treadmill.

rattus ~ # esearch portage
[ Results for search key : portage ]
[ Applications found : 5 ]

...

*  app-portage/portage-utils
      Latest version available: 0.1.29
      Latest version installed: 0.1.29
      Size of downloaded files: 77 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org/
      Description: small and fast portage helper tools written in C
      License:     GPL-2

*  sys-apps/portage
      Latest version available: 2.1.6.13
      Latest version installed: 2.2_rc15
      Size of downloaded files: 732 kB
      Homepage:    http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/portage/index.xml
      Description: Portage is the package management and distribution
system for Gentoo
      License:     GPL-2


rattus ~ # 

I think I had installed 2.2_rc15, and then that stupid forced downgrade
because someone wanted a version tested came in - I'll try sorting out
the portage version first as that looks like a possible culprit.

BillK


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