From: Markos Chandras <hwoarang@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 22:05:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBAAE07.5090108@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBAAA8D.3050306@asyr.hopto.org>
On 05/21/2012 09:50 PM, Thanasis wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes sorry this "preserve-libs" feature is part of portage-2.2. In any
case, a revdep-rebuild will fix your problem.
--
Regards,
Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-21 21:08 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
2012-05-21 21:05 ` Markos Chandras [this message]
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