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 1SWZq1-0007CV-Mx for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:08:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2C3EEE0D5D; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:07:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f53.google.com (mail-bk0-f53.google.com [209.85.214.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88FF3E0D49 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 21:05:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bkcjk13 with SMTP id jk13so5019536bkc.40 for ; Mon, 21 May 2012 14:05:19 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :references:in-reply-to:x-enigmail-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=NXILPYFok8Co8rHPilG8YrDvEu9WPc06laWpU3iercs=; b=D/Oar7WzP8ni9fNALIJHJB0WGCwQ6Ib6gL5IMxwa0OPYrHNPxWAJTZxVPwBoBkefxD BGO8DeqI2GX6pLnlVCH/VmSiYrtxJqxSr/7TzY9dL/PKG7NQVVSoIqaaHyiHED+Nkt0v YxanRtwQBG3HkmLdm/qv6+27ZHW8pZInBkdH3VUbLCeP7VApdj++8dWLnvq3SKNLhwLQ xd3QS3UgcaMgNtbyestDMbOAPs4anr5ICMh8qLOb9mua4LnVzpjg45lg0kr6n+YzPlrd d26qOVQlimtnAB7ozf+4+w633cG8WZcN7f1qihWJzgTLEkwClw88cjWavUOz4AKjPnT4 uZ1Q== Received: by 10.204.154.138 with SMTP id o10mr8373691bkw.34.1337634319542; Mon, 21 May 2012 14:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.72] (93-97-149-234.zone5.bethere.co.uk. [93.97.149.234]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e20sm29181599bkw.3.2012.05.21.14.05.18 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 21 May 2012 14:05:18 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Markos Chandras Message-ID: <4FBAAE07.5090108@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 22:05:11 +0100 From: Markos Chandras User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120420 Thunderbird/12.0 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> <4FBAAA8D.3050306@asyr.hopto.org> In-Reply-To: <4FBAAA8D.3050306@asyr.hopto.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4.1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c2783c7e-6d4d-42d5-876f-78173b3301db X-Archives-Hash: 00d22b5d078a2bdf1e7b11f5012d3472 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