From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1SWZa3-0003tZ-5h for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:51:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9F5DEE0C4C; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:51:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vergina.dyndns.org (cust-218-222.on4.ontelecoms.gr [92.118.218.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DCA9E0C4C for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 20:50:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.1] (viper.vergina.dyndns.org [192.168.0.1]) by viper.vergina.dyndns.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 18D96268D for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 23:50:22 +0300 (EEST) Message-ID: <4FBAAA8D.3050306@asyr.hopto.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 23:50:21 +0300 From: Thanasis User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.4) Gecko/20120513 Thunderbird/10.0.4 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries References: <4FBA7B2A.8090200@asyr.hopto.org> <4FBA8675.5010900@asyr.hopto.org> <4FBA8F08.8080503@gentoo.org> In-Reply-To: <4FBA8F08.8080503@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: faf74253-db21-4fac-9e11-cd6211cefdf0 X-Archives-Hash: 4f76d9afe52dd3bc28e54785275abbe9 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.