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 4.50) id 1EUjov-00046A-FC for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:51:53 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9QBosw5008121; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:50:54 GMT Received: from psmtp02.wxs.nl (psmtp02.wxs.nl [195.121.247.11] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9QBj146023673 for ; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 11:45:01 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by psmtp02.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 2.02 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IOY002Y2TZ13L@psmtp02.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:45:01 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 26 Oct 2005 13:44:49 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage somwhat out of whack In-reply-to: <200510261019.27190.mike@gaima.co.uk> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <435F6C31.6050200@planet.nl> 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=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051025) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <9acccfe50510251737i676d985ds1f04ec47e9de94eb@mail.gmail.com> <200510261019.27190.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: d92fe977-e9d4-44ed-abcc-9572c211053a X-Archives-Hash: 2942fa9fd52facad3ea7590ae757f449 Mike Williams schreef: > On Wednesday 26 October 2005 01:37, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > >> =app-office/openoffice-bin-2.0.0 > > > Binary package, nothing to compile, no way to fix broken binaries. > > >> =dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.05 > > > Binary package. > > >> =kde-base/kdelibs-3.3.2-r9 > > > It's installed, but no longer in the tree. Therefor to fix any broken > binaries you will have to upgrade. > > >> =www-client/opera-8.50 > > > Binary package. > > >> These are failing for a variety of reasons, which I think are also >> references to obsolete libraries. > > > The 3 binary packages you listed almost always reference libraries > that don't exist. I have the same problem with OOo and opera, both > work OK though (not that I actually use opera). > To solve this (preventing revdep-rebuild from searching binaries that you know exist and cannot successfully be rebuilt by the tool), the thing to do is to add a variable to either the command line or /etc/make.conf: (from man revdep-rebuild) revdep-rebuild no longer uses hardcoded paths. To change the default behavior the following variables can be changed by the user. SEARCH_DIRS_MASK - List of directories to not search Mine excludes SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt/OpenOffice.org /opt/sun-jre-bin-1.5.0.03 /usr/lib/openoffice" (because I don't use Opera). So java and OO.o don't come up on my revdep-rebuild -p searches, because it would be pointless. It's worth considering creating such a setting yourself, adding the directories of any additional -bin files you may use (firefox, thunderbird, etc). HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list