From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LKz9R-0003SO-Q5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 08 Jan 2009 17:58:38 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 77820E0329; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E74BE0329 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:58:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krikkit (krikkit.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.3]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E44433EB23 for ; Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:58:34 +0000 (GMT) Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2009 17:58:25 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Please explain why this new 'emerge @preserved-rebuild' is good? Message-ID: <20090108175825.0584e0a4@krikkit> In-Reply-To: <5bdc1c8b0901080951x2b83ef09yea7d8d18c722c737@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bdc1c8b0901080920g1a0edb11r466c26bb0e7c98a1@mail.gmail.com> <87aba14rtq.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <5bdc1c8b0901080951x2b83ef09yea7d8d18c722c737@mail.gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.0cvs16 (GTK+ 2.14.5; i686-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/nYwFnyIUG=s/KH2R3uLZHW8"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: ac813acf-bff8-441e-af7d-151105653a3f X-Archives-Hash: cba1050c675e914a6147707fcc822999 --Sig_/nYwFnyIUG=s/KH2R3uLZHW8 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I guess then that the constant messages about doing an emerge > @preserved-rebuild aren't necessarily to be followed, or at least not > worried about if they fail as whatever program needs the libraries > still has the old versions? They should be followed and the problem fixed. Not only is it untidy leaving old copies of libraries around but, as Volker says, the old versions can prevent revdep-rebuild working correctly. --=20 Neil Bothwick Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats. --Sig_/nYwFnyIUG=s/KH2R3uLZHW8 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAklmPsgACgkQum4al0N1GQOHmwCgtRYb9Zuu6CQApWmwJCcLJOrB xNcAnifQuQ4vAowTXSa7Faf3uXNieZ+R =0zEM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/nYwFnyIUG=s/KH2R3uLZHW8--