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From: Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 13:49:35 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+czFiCTi5TkAA1otjy0g5eHA0H4X=EXqqNzAXerKPbErvBSXg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FBA7B2A.8090200@asyr.hopto.org>

On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Thanasis <thanasis@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:
> After a recent update of dev-libs/libffi from version 3.0.10 to 3.0.11
> the ebuild log suggests to run:
>
>  # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
>
> and once finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
> delete the old libraries, like so:
>
>  # rm '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
>
> However by querying:
>
> equery b /usr/lib/libffi.so.5
>  * Searching for /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 ...
> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5)
>
> we see that /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5 is reported as belonging to
> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11. Is that normal?

I think so. It might be clearer if equery omitted the version number,
or if it tracked which versions of a package a file belonged to.

(If I'm wrong, then I suspect you found a bug)


-- 
:wq



  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-21 17:51 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 [this message]
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

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