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 1HJCD1-0003kX-8P for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:21:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1JHKZwS003580; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:20:35 GMT Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za (sqlprd.sybase.co.za [192.96.139.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1JHE23U025543 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:14:03 GMT Received: from localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66F1983420 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:21:06 +0200 (SAST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at sybase.co.za Received: from cranium.sybase.co.za ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (cranium.sybase.co.za [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ggEX6LK9rjrE for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:21:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: from bard.sybase.co.za (bard.sybase.co.za [192.168.2.6]) by cranium.sybase.co.za (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A0EF83421 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:21:00 +0200 (SAST) Received: from nazgul.sybase.co.za ([192.168.2.68]) by bard.sybase.co.za with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:15:46 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 19:11:40 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 References: <5bdc1c8b0702190823o2985c5bdmf7b404f5b667a0c1@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0702190823o2985c5bdmf7b404f5b667a0c1@mail.gmail.com> 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="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702191911.40321.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 19 Feb 2007 17:15:46.0859 (UTC) FILETIME=[9857DFB0:01C75449] X-Archives-Salt: 17c5ec5a-9c4a-4dc2-9ed2-44fb52127f78 X-Archives-Hash: a456722af3a24164572bf489bd6bef1e On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > Hi, > 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? > > What's the process to get this cleaned up and down to no messages > about broken things? > > Thanks, > Mark My guess would be that portage cannot assign the broken binaries (/usr/bin/avibench etc) to an ebuild, and therefore there cannot be anything to emerge. 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?) alan > > > gandalf ~ # revdep-rebuild -p > Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild > > Checking reverse dependencies... > > Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update > will be emerged. > > Collecting system binaries and libraries... done. > (/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files) > > Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done. > (/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath) > > Checking dynamic linking consistency... > broken /usr/bin/avibench (requires libaviplay-0.7.so.0) > broken /usr/bin/avicap (requires libaviplay-0.7.so.0 > libqavm-0.7.so.0) broken /usr/bin/avicat (requires > libaviplay-0.7.so.0) > > broken /usr/lib/transcode/filter_preview.la (requires > /usr/lib/libdv.la) broken /usr/lib/transcode/filter_preview.la > (requires > /usr/lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-gnu/4.1.1/libstdc++.la) > done. > (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild) > > Assigning files to ebuilds... done. > (/root/.revdep-rebuild.4_ebuilds) > > Evaluating package order... done. > (/root/.revdep-rebuild.5_order) > > Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. > gandalf ~ # -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list