From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F65C1381F4 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:51:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B416C21C02B; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:51:32 +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 110E821C00B for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:49:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 345F880AB9 for ; Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:49:57 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sat, 8 Dec 2012 22:49:50 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] System maintenance procedure? Message-ID: <20121208224950.40759f8e@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20121205120550.2bc346bf@khamul.example.com> <20121208220616.44fb92ae@khamul.example.com> <20121208232507.6f348f86@khamul.example.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0cvs44 (GTK+ 2.24.14; x86_64-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; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/vzTD1t8PEJs2JOQt1FWLA7b"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 4cee7bd7-47a5-4d3c-a930-76f22a4bcc3d X-Archives-Hash: 3cd3177e32073979d10a40501e8acb10 --Sig_/vzTD1t8PEJs2JOQt1FWLA7b Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 8 Dec 2012 13:54:25 -0800, Grant wrote: > Got it. So @preserved-rebuild is meant to be a replacement for > revdep-rebuild No, it is a means of preventing the problems that revdep-rebuild fixes. If revdep-rebuild were a medicine, @preserved-rebuild would be a vaccine. Which you choose to use depends on whether you prefer fixing broken systems to avoiding them. revdep-rebuild is an external program created to deal with a shortcoming in emerge, that shortcoming was the lack of @preserved-rebuild. There may be times when @preserved-rebuild fails, although they are becoming increasingly rare, so revdep-rebuild is still useful as a fallback, but the main reason I run it from my weekly system check script is as a sanity check. It rarely finds anything. --=20 Neil Bothwick Beware! The end is... --Sig_/vzTD1t8PEJs2JOQt1FWLA7b Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlDDxBQACgkQum4al0N1GQOTjwCgxmbqS6xEvcxBp3aB3K06hrdK 8SgAoKgxoJBVlmNIvonbYI60e1121LsI =nPQ2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/vzTD1t8PEJs2JOQt1FWLA7b--