[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[Kevin O'Gorman]

When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages involving
early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

These "broken" files are text, and say they're not to be deleted, but equery
can't find out for me what package, let alone version, they belong to.
Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts?
Should I just delete them anyway?

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[gentoo-user] Re: Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[Sven Köhler]

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> When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages
> involving
> early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
> Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

Old *.la files are broken. They have not been unmerged. That's a known
bug, because some gentoo-tools have modified the files, and so they were
not unmerged.

Just delete them.
You can verify, that they don't belong to any installed package by using
"equery b <filename>"


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Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[Mick]

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On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages
> involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
> Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
>
> These "broken" files are text, and say they're not to be deleted, but
> equery can't find out for me what package, let alone version, they belong
> to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts?
> Should I just delete them anyway?

Run emerge --deep -v -p to see if there's a couple of updated/removed apps 
that have left libs cruft behind and need to be removed.  I can vaguely 
remember going through something like this a few months ago (about 
ImageMagick?), so if you do a gmane search you may find it - otherwise post 
back and I'll see if I can find it.

HTH
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Mick

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Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[Kevin O'Gorman]

On 10/30/06, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 29 October 2006 15:45, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > When I run revdep-rebuild, it reports a bunch (around 100) breakages
> > involving early kde *.la files, but then it reports that
> > Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.
> >
> > These "broken" files are text, and say they're not to be deleted, but
> > equery can't find out for me what package, let alone version, they belong
> > to. Could it be that they are abandoned relic artifacts?
> > Should I just delete them anyway?
>
> Run emerge --deep -v -p to see if there's a couple of updated/removed apps
> that have left libs cruft behind and need to be removed.  I can vaguely
> remember going through something like this a few months ago (about
> ImageMagick?), so if you do a gmane search you may find it - otherwise post
> back and I'll see if I can find it.
>
> HTH

I checked a number of them, and they were clearly orphans: the
libraries they were
associated with originally had ceased to exist, which makes sense because they
where also coordinated with KDE versions (3.2 and such) that I no longer have.

So I deleted the lot, and everything seems okay.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Revdep-rebuild reports kde breakage and then says its all okay; what's up with that

[Alan McKinnon]

On Monday 30 October 2006 19:50, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:

> I checked a number of them, and they were clearly orphans: the
> libraries they were
> associated with originally had ceased to exist, which makes sense
> because they where also coordinated with KDE versions (3.2 and such)
> that I no longer have.
>
> So I deleted the lot, and everything seems okay.

That's bang on target. Sven had the right answer, it's usually 
fix_libtool_files.sh doing this - it modifies the libs, then emerge 
will refuse to delete them later when the package is unmerged.

Harmless, but annoying.

alan
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