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From: Remy Blank <remy.blank@pobox.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: portage inconsistency?
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 11:11:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f96okh$drr$1@sea.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46B6DFA5.7080406@silvanoc.com>

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Abraham Marín Pérez wrote:
> Now think there's a new version available of LIB, let's say version 2.1, 
> but the latest version of APP is still 1.0. If portage performed a deep 
> update by default LIB would be rebuilt, but no APP, what would cause 
> broken dependencies on APP (remember LIB is a dynamic library). However, 
> is you don't update LIB unless you update also APP you will prevent this 
> problem*.

That's what revdep-rebuild is for. Update your LIB, run revdep-rebuild,
and if APP is really broken by the LIB update (it doesn't have to be),
it will be rebuilt.

-- Remy


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  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-06  9:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 22:46 [gentoo-user] portage inconsistency? maxim wexler
2007-07-17  1:36 ` Александър Л. Димитров
2007-07-17 12:35 ` Iván Pérez Domínguez
2007-07-17 19:27   ` maxim wexler
2007-08-05 14:32 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-08-05 15:13   ` Tim Allingham
2007-08-05 15:20     ` Mark Shields
2007-08-05 16:33     ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-08-06  8:45   ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-08-06  9:11     ` Remy Blank [this message]
2007-08-06  9:59       ` [gentoo-user] " Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-08-06 10:40         ` Remy Blank
2007-08-06 10:53           ` Abraham Marín Pérez
2007-08-06 10:57           ` Neil Bothwick
2007-08-06  9:17     ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2007-08-06 10:19       ` Abraham Marín Pérez

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