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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1Ujp-0006l1-8u for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Jan 2007 21:30:33 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l01LRfO0016708; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:27:41 GMT Received: from mail.osagesoftware.com (osagesoftware.com [216.144.204.42]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l01LOdbM003883 for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 21:24:39 GMT Received: from osage.osagesoftware.com (osage.osagesoftware.com [192.168.1.10]) by mail.osagesoftware.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E12767BE0A for ; Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:24:35 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 16:24:35 -0500 From: David Relson To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild Message-ID: <20070101162435.5cfea602@osage.osagesoftware.com> In-Reply-To: <200701012216.46479.uwix@iway.na> References: <200701011616.26753.uwix@iway.na> <200701011115.57773.bss03@volumehost.net> <200701012216.46479.uwix@iway.na> Organization: Osage Software Systems, Inc. X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.6.1 (GTK+ 2.10.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 47ee3c2a-0a4f-461a-9eaa-08012237dd6e X-Archives-Hash: 108d20982e69106f7ed5aa4d3c2d58f0 On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:16:46 +0200 Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem wrote > > > > about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': > > > revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. > > > Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a > > > long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary > > > no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How > > > do I find out? > > > > ??? > > I agree. ;-) > > > > > Are you running with the -q option? > > No -q option here. Straight revdep-rebuild. > > > Normally in the "assigning file to > > packages" stage it will produce error text like " not owned > > by any package is broken". > > Yes, I know. > > > Maybe check your output again? Or run with the -v > > option to see if you get any extra messages? > > I swear on a whole barrel of Windhoek Lager that it did not mention > any particular file. The issue is resolved meanwhile (see my other > mail), so I can not reproduce the same output and post it here > anymore. > > Uwe One can list binaries known to portage with: cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ If that's compared to /usr/bin/*, orphaned binaries can be identified. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list