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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup?
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 08:57:41 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yu962kne5h6.fsf@nyu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110920113836.41e8dcc4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message of "Tue, 20 Sep 2011 11:38:36 +0100")

On Tue, Sep 20 2011, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Sep 2011 13:57:03 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>
>> When revdep-rebuild --library is suggested should we run it
>> before or after the ordinary revdep-rebuild that we typically
>> run after each update world?
>> (That was actually my original question :-)
>
> You should run it first, because the elog message is telling you to run
> that command, not revdep-rebuild, which is usually unnecessary. The
> reason revdep-rebuild alone finds nothing to rebuild is because portage
> has ensured that nothing is broken by preserving the old library version.
>
> With a recent enough portage, emerge @preserved-rebuild should avoid the
> need for revdep-rebuild entirely, although in this case it doesn't quite
> manage that.

Thank you.
allan



  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-20 12:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-09-18 20:10 [gentoo-user] Updating libpng: another libtool cockup? walt
2011-09-18 20:48 ` Michael Mol
2011-09-18 20:57 ` Thanasis
2011-09-18 21:54   ` Mick
2011-09-18 21:58 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-18 23:39   ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-19 10:06     ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2011-09-19 14:10       ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-19 14:20         ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-19 14:34           ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-19 14:58             ` [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another lib tool cockup? Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-19 15:19               ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-19 15:28               ` Alan McKinnon
2011-09-19 15:49                 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-19 15:49               ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-19 17:57                 ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-19 18:19                   ` Paul Hartman
2011-09-19 20:08                     ` Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-20 10:38                   ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-20 12:57                     ` Allan Gottlieb [this message]
2011-09-19 16:30               ` covici
2011-09-19 14:36           ` [gentoo-user] Re: Updating libpng: another libtool cockup? Michael Mol
2011-09-19 20:33             ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-19 20:41               ` Michael Mol
2011-09-19 20:52                 ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-19 21:10                   ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-09-19 21:28                     ` Mark Knecht
2011-09-19 15:07         ` walt
2011-09-19 15:49         ` David W Noon
2011-09-19 20:54           ` Peter Humphrey
2011-09-19 22:29             ` covici
2011-09-20 10:41               ` Neil Bothwick
2011-09-19 14:06     ` [gentoo-user] " Allan Gottlieb
2011-09-19 21:04 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras

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