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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 23:13:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091102231331.2eb2f247@majikthise> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iqdt540c.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk>

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On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:35 +0000, Graham Murray wrote:

> The difference is that with the new @preserved-rebuild the 'old' library
> is not deleted until all of the dependent packages have been
> successfully rebuilt to use the 'new' library.

This also means that if you don't run emerge @preserved-rebuild, the old
libraries will still be hanging around, and revdep-rebuild won't rebuild
affected packages because the libraries they link against are still
there. revdep-rebuild depends on packages being broken to rebuild them.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math.

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-11-02 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-24 20:16 [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing Dale
2009-10-24 20:21 ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-24 20:36   ` Dale
2009-10-24 21:25     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-30 11:17       ` Dale
2009-10-30 16:22         ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-10-31  3:34           ` Dale
2009-10-31 19:26             ` Alan McKinnon
2009-10-31 21:30               ` Dale
2009-11-01 15:06             ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-01 18:21               ` Dale
2009-11-01 19:20                 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-01 22:56                   ` Dale
2009-11-02  6:08                   ` Dale
2009-11-02 12:58                     ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 13:25                       ` Neil Bothwick
2009-11-02 13:44                         ` Dale
2009-11-02 13:58                         ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 14:12                           ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-02 15:01                             ` [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.] Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 15:39                               ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-02 16:31                                 ` [gentoo-user] Re: revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild Harry Putnam
2009-11-02 17:52                                   ` Alan McKinnon
2009-11-02 15:40                               ` [gentoo-user] " Graham Murray
2009-11-02 23:13                                 ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2009-11-02 15:50                               ` [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.] Alex Schuster
2009-11-02 16:39                                 ` Jesús Guerrero
2009-11-02 14:49                           ` [gentoo-user] Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing Neil Bothwick

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