[gentoo-user] Re: dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0 after upgrading to python-2.6.2-r1

[Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@arcor.de>]

On 08/19/2009 11:17 PM, Yiannis wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:30:56 +0300
> Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@arcor.de>  wrote:
>
>> On 08/19/2009 09:13 PM, Yiannis wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Recently I upgraded to python-2.6.2-r1 which currently is slotted on
>>> my system as long as python-2.5.4-r3 is. After running
>>> python-upgrade twice I see that dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 and
>>> x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3 are still linked to libpython2.5.so.1.0. On
>>> the other hand emege --depclean -p suggests that python-2.5.4-r3
>>> can be removed and this is what I would like to do if possible.
>>> Shouldn't python-upgrade have resolved this linking issue? From the
>>> afore mentioned ebuilds I can tell that there is no specific
>>> dependency on python 2.5. Any help would be appreciated.
>>
>> That's what revdep-rebuild is for.  After depclean removes
>> python-2.5, you need to do a revdep-rebuild which will take care of
>> boost and any other packages still using the old libpython.
>
> I am a little confused here about what happened. After removing
> python-2.5.4-r3, # revdep-rebuilt -pv --library libpython2.5.so.1.0 did
> not rebuild dev-libs/boost-1.35.0-r2 nor
> x11-libs/vte-0.17.4-r3. Also running:
> # for file in `equery files vte`; do if [ -f $file ]; then ldd $file |
> grep python; fi; done 2>/dev/null
> # for file in `equery files boost`; do if [ -f $file ]; then ldd $file
> | grep python; fi; done 2>/dev/null
> returns nothing about python(I suppose that revdep-rebuild does
> something like this). Everything seems ok. Am I missing something here?

What about just "revdep-rebuild -a" without any other options?

Also, what portage version do you have?  If it's 2.2, it should have the 
new "preserved-rebuild" feature which keeps libs even if you depclean. 
If yes, I can't really help, I'm on portage 2.1.