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 1HJCwq-000674-Fr for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:09:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1JI7DBK024451; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:07:13 GMT Received: from ender.volumehost.net (adsl-69-154-123-202.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.202]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1JHx1YS013461 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:59:01 GMT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B064D18F8C for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:59:00 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at volumehost.net Received: from ender.volumehost.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ender.volumehost.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id ofzDE03NLkEk for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:58:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net (adsl-69-154-123-205.dsl.fyvlar.swbell.net [69.154.123.205]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ender.volumehost.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BC4918F3D for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:58:59 +0000 (UTC) From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:58:47 -0600 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <5bdc1c8b0702190823o2985c5bdmf7b404f5b667a0c1@mail.gmail.com> <200702191911.40321.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> <5bdc1c8b0702190923i2b3af008x688353b63d540aaa@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0702190923i2b3af008x688353b63d540aaa@mail.gmail.com> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy 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: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1712013.VpObN1j0Vm"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200702191158.53362.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: ce02d689-49de-4ecb-a479-f75d343a29f6 X-Archives-Hash: 1199249fdd364677199b1fc1bbd83681 --nextPart1712013.VpObN1j0Vm Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Monday 19 February 2007, "Mark Knecht" wrote=20 about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question': > On 2/19/07, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > I'm not clear why revdep-rebuild is showing lots of broken > > > linkages but then telling me everything is in order and there is no > > > work to do to clean up the system. > > > > > > I haven't seen this before. What's causing it? > > > > They might be orphan binaries from a previous incomplete unmerge, or > > something locally compiled, or even files installed from a foreign > > package system (.tgz or .rpm perhaps?) > > Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on > each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand > without causing damage? Probably want to do a (b)elongs instead of a (d)epends, but yes, assuming=20 you aren't maintaining those binaries outside of portage's control. (E.g.= =20 locally compiled or from a foreign package system.) > I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that > things remained consistent. Yep. revdep-rebuild used to be part of my daily system maintenance script= =20 (and will be put back once I figure out a good way to use paludis instead=20 of emerge for the remerge part). =2D-=20 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,=3D ,-_-. =3D.=20 bss03@volumehost.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-'=20 http://iguanasuicide.org/ \_/ =20 New GPG Key! Old key expires 2007-03-25. Upgrade NOW! --nextPart1712013.VpObN1j0Vm Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBF2eVd55pqL7G1QFkRAqusAKCHpv//lioBE5xDvUQsGatJHjonQgCfW4GR bj0D50uplceDkVaCGvH9lhc= =YpHC -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1712013.VpObN1j0Vm-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list