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 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HJCKG-0000L3-75 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:29:20 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l1JHS4Bx009595; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:28:04 GMT Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l1JHNfEj004981 for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:23:42 GMT Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i21so2040433wra for ; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:23:41 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Qr9qbpvUsho7Jx+KmUvuKgRgr0gViIKTfS0YQPlkPECnTCe9OvD0AJpIFhunNzXKFYnMaL44jZ09Ps/MiYuIccluNo76Ry7RMsyvh2P7sgK3pGl/dgjbmhwH/GSDFMX0l42xpnZS/mN1aSXmJUlUgwX2XoVbi5774ZY/iewZfA0= Received: by 10.114.170.1 with SMTP id s1mr2986000wae.1171905820363; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:23:40 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.115.77.11 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:23:39 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <5bdc1c8b0702190923i2b3af008x688353b63d540aaa@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 09:23:40 -0800 From: "Mark Knecht" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild question In-Reply-To: <200702191911.40321.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <5bdc1c8b0702190823o2985c5bdmf7b404f5b667a0c1@mail.gmail.com> <200702191911.40321.alan@linuxholdings.co.za> X-Archives-Salt: 5318a351-dc9a-4d60-98fc-81a97a899e4c X-Archives-Hash: cc6335291d6f310ddf8ddfde9dcff514 On 2/19/07, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm not clear why revdep-rebuild is showing lots of broken > > linkages but then telling me everything is in order and there is no > > work to do to clean up the system. > > > > I haven't seen this before. What's causing it? > > > > What's the process to get this cleaned up and down to no messages > > about broken things? > > > > Thanks, > > Mark > > My guess would be that portage cannot assign the broken binaries > (/usr/bin/avibench etc) to an ebuild, and therefore there cannot be > anything to emerge. > > They might be orphan binaries from a previous incomplete unmerge, or > something locally compiled, or even files installed from a foreign > package system (.tgz or .rpm perhaps?) > > alan > > Alan, Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand without causing damage? I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that things remained consistent. Thanks, Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list