From: Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:50:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBAAA8D.3050306@asyr.hopto.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBA8F08.8080503@gentoo.org>
on 05/21/2012 09:52 PM Markos Chandras wrote the following:
>
> I believe the old library appears to be owned by the new version
> because it is "preserved". Once you run the revdep-rebuild command,
> everything should link to the new linker name and you should be safe
> to remove the old library. See the functions preserve_old_lib{_notify}
> in eutils eclass for more details and the "preserve-libs" option for
> the FEATURES variable in make.conf.
>
>
I don't see any "preserve-libs" option in the man page of make.conf.
Anyway, the bottom line is that equery may list an installed package as
owning a certain library file, when in reality that file belonged to an
older version of the package than the one installed, in which case it
may be or appear misleading.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-21 20:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-21 17:28 [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries Thanasis
2012-05-21 17:49 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-21 18:16 ` Thanasis
2012-05-21 18:29 ` Michael Mol
2012-05-21 18:52 ` Markos Chandras
2012-05-21 20:50 ` Thanasis [this message]
2012-05-21 21:05 ` Markos Chandras
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