Re: [gentoo-user] problem reinstalling gnome-cups-manager preserved-rebuild problem

[covici@ccs.covici.com]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Monday 19 October 2009 05:01:46 Dale wrote:
> > covici@ccs.covici.com wrote:
> > > Hi.  After my last update, I did emerge said to do emerge
> > > @preserved-rebuild and when I tried it wanted me to rebuild just one
> > > package net-print/gnome-cups-manager.  Now this fails because
> > > libsmbclient.h does not exist.  After some investigation, it seems that
> > > this file used to  be part of samba, but no more.
> > >
> > > Any ideas on how to resolve this problem?
> > >
> > > Thanks much.
> > 
> > I don't know how to fix it but this shows it still belongs to samba.
> > 
> > http://www.portagefilelist.de/index.php/Special:PFLQuery2?file=libsmbclient
> > .h&searchfile=lookup&lookup=file#result
> 
> 
> That's out of date, in latest unstable it's part of samba-libs. Samba is now a 
> split-ebuild which depends on samba-client, samba-server and samba-libs.
> 
> Unmerge samba and remerge samaba
Well, after emerging samba-libs the preserved-rebuild went away  -- I
re-emerged samba to make sure, but there is now libsmbclient.h, so looks
like things are OK.  Thanks -- the joys of packages out of sync.

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