[gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Michael P. Soulier]

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Hi,

I recently did an emerge --update --deep world, which resulted in a rebuild of
the ffmpeg library. 

The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke transcode. The
--deep argument did not find the dependency there and rebuild transcode. 

On my FreeBSD server, portupgrade has the -r and -R arguments to force
rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way to have
emerge do the same?

Thanks,
Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Joshua D Doll]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I recently did an emerge --update --deep world, which resulted in a rebuild of
> the ffmpeg library. 
>
> The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke transcode. The
> --deep argument did not find the dependency there and rebuild transcode. 
>
> On my FreeBSD server, portupgrade has the -r and -R arguments to force
> rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way to have
> emerge do the same?
>
> Thanks,
> Mike
>   
I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the 
gentoolkit package.

--Joshua Doll

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Dale]

Joshua D Doll wrote:
> Michael P. Soulier wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently did an emerge --update --deep world, which resulted in a
>> rebuild of
>> the ffmpeg library.
>> The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke
>> transcode. The
>> --deep argument did not find the dependency there and rebuild transcode.
>> On my FreeBSD server, portupgrade has the -r and -R arguments to force
>> rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way
>> to have
>> emerge do the same?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mike
>>   
> I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the
> gentoolkit package.
>
> --Joshua Doll
>
>

Would --with-bdeps y help here?  I'm not sure it would.  Just a thought.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Michael P. Soulier]

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On 15/01/09 Joshua D Doll said:

> I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the gentoolkit 
> package.

I'm not sure that would find the dependency, since transcode dynamically loads
said module at runtime, AFAICT. Perhaps that is the issue.

Mike
-- 
Michael P. Soulier <msoulier@digitaltorque.ca>
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a
touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
--Albert Einstein

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Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Dale]

Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> On 15/01/09 Joshua D Doll said:
>
>   
>> I'm thinking you might want to check out revdep-rebuild from the gentoolkit 
>> package.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure that would find the dependency, since transcode dynamically loads
> said module at runtime, AFAICT. Perhaps that is the issue.
>
> Mike
>   

If the library is broken, it should find it.  You can run revdep-rebuild
-i -p and just see what it says.  It won't do anything until you remove
the -p part.

Dale

:-)  :-) 

Re: [gentoo-user] rebuilding dependent packages

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Thu, 15 Jan 2009 18:37:20 -0500, Michael P. Soulier wrote:

> The libavcodec library went from version 51 to 52, which broke
> transcode. The --deep argument did not find the dependency there and
> rebuild transcode. 
> 
> On my FreeBSD server, portupgrade has the -r and -R arguments to force
> rebuilds of dependent and reverse-dependent packages. Is there a way to
> have emerge do the same?

emerge @preserved-libs does that with portage 2.2. Emerge even tells
you to run it, and hangs on to the old versions until you do so, so your
system is never broken.

Revdep-rebuild is good for fixing things after they are broken, but the
new portage approach of not breaking them is much nicer :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

If at first you don't succeed you'll get lot's of advice.

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