From: Bill Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question
Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 09:23:22 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1311643402.4598.48.camel@troll> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEH5T2N5STbJRyfhSPdY=D9WOhtJqFUVYBGOpRh=t68vR7EX0g@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, 2011-07-25 at 17:30 -0500, Paul Hartman wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:30 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 5:20 PM, Hartmut Figge <h.figge@gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> after the emerge -uDN world of today i proceeded with revdep-rebuild
> >> which found nothing to to. But i noticed, that the emerge recommended to
> >> execute revdep-rebuild --library='libosp.so.*'. Doing this two packages
> >> were found and emerged.
> >>
> >> Now, shouldn't these have been found already by the previous revdep-rebuild?
> >
> > I believe --library rebuilds everything that uses that library, not
> > broken packages.
>
> To test my theory you can run the command again and see if it finds
> the same 2 packages again. :)
>
A quick look at the ebuild for opensp shows that it will always print
that message - doesnt test if its really needed, and the revdep-rebuild
reccomendation will always rebuild "all" matching libs it finds - not
just ones that really need building.
BillK
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-26 1:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-25 22:20 [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question Hartmut Figge
2011-07-25 22:30 ` Paul Hartman
2011-07-25 22:30 ` Paul Hartman
2011-07-25 22:40 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2011-07-25 22:49 ` Hartmut Figge
2011-07-25 23:02 ` Paul Hartman
2011-07-26 1:23 ` Bill Kenworthy [this message]
2011-07-25 22:36 ` Hartmut Figge
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-02-19 16:23 [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2007-02-19 17:11 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-19 17:23 ` Mark Knecht
2007-02-19 17:58 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-02-20 7:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2007-02-20 10:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2007-02-19 17:52 ` Jakob Buchgraber
2007-02-19 20:55 ` Neil Walker
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