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machinelou
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 Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:28 pm Post subject: I don't understand revdep-rebuild |
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Hi, I'm trying to setup a headless server without X, gnome, or any of that stuff. However, when I run revdep-rebuild, I get the following output:
| Quote: | saturn ~ # revdep-rebuild -X
Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild
Checking reverse dependencies...
Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update
will be emerged.
Collecting system binaries and libraries... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.1_files)
Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH... done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.2_ldpath)
Checking dynamic linking consistency...
broken /usr/lib/X11/xkb/xkbcomp (requires libxkbfile.so.1)
broken /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.la (requires /usr/lib/libgnomevfs-2.la)
broken /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.la (requires /usr/lib/libgconf-2.la)
done.
(/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)
Assigning files to packages... terminated.
Removing incomplete /root/.revdep-rebuild.4_packages_raw.
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So, if I'm interpreting the output correctly.. It's saying that I have the following packages installed: xkbcomp, and gnome-vfs.. However, I just emerged -C gnome-vfs. Here's the output of emerge -s gnome-vfs to prove it:
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saturn ~ # emerge -s gnome-vfs
Searching...
[ Results for search key : gnome-vfs ]
[ Applications found : 2 ]
* dev-cpp/gnome-vfsmm
Latest version available: 2.12.0
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 314 kB
Homepage: http://gtkmm.sourceforge.net/
Description: C++ bindings for gnome-vfs
License: LGPL-2.1
* gnome-base/gnome-vfs
Latest version available: 2.14.2
Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ]
Size of files: 1,773 kB
Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/
Description: Gnome Virtual Filesystem
License: GPL-2 LGPL-2
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Look! It's not installed! Why does revdep-rebuild want to install its dependencies? Emerge -s also shows that xkb is not installed.. What's up? |
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sfragis
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:16 pm Post subject: |
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| machinelou wrote: |
Look! It's not installed! Why does revdep-rebuild want to install its dependencies? Emerge -s also shows that xkb is not installed.. What's up?
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Maybe revdep-rebuild caches results in temporary files (/root/.revdep-rebuild.N.XXX).
Try ignoring them:
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$ revdep-rebuild -i
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sternklang
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| Posted: Sun Aug 13, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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Does the file /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.la exist? If for some reason it wasn't removed during the unmerge, then revdep-rebuild is quite rightly finding that it requires other parts of gnome-vfs that are now missing because you unmerged gnome-vfs. In which case, manually delete that file and your mystery is solved.
Now why this file would be left over is another mystery.  |
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mv
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:41 am Post subject: |
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| sternklang wrote: | Does the file /usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.la exist? ...
Now why this file would be left over is another mystery. |
Unfortunately, why .la-Files are left over is usually no mystery 
The reason is that fix_libtool_files.sh changes these files, and when now a new version of a package is emerged in which the file has vanished, portage will not delete the old .la-file, because its mtime is changed.
I consider this a bug in fix_libtool_files.sh: It should update the information in the portage database, too. Does somebody know a way how to do this manually?  |
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sternklang
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 11:53 am Post subject: |
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| Ah, so that's it. Thanks. Now that I know, I did some searching of bugzilla. See these bugs for information on how fix_libtool_files.sh is going to go away as people upgrade their gcc, so no fix will be necessary, just a bit of patience. |
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machinelou
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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| So, until we get gcc-4.1, is it kosher to just delete .la-files of uninstalled packages? Or, should I just use revdep-rebuild to tell me which packages need to be rebuilt, and then rebuild them manually, skipping those that have already been removed? |
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sternklang
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| Posted: Mon Aug 14, 2006 1:54 pm Post subject: |
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| machinelou wrote: | | So, until we get gcc-4.1, is it kosher to just delete .la-files of uninstalled packages? Or, should I just use revdep-rebuild to tell me which packages need to be rebuilt, and then rebuild them manually, skipping those that have already been removed? |
They're not needed any longer and are only there due to a quirk in a rarely-run recovery script. I would delete them and move on. |
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