[solved] How to remove "avahi" from a sytem with gnome?

hoschi · Last edited by hoschi on Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:38 am; edited 1 time in total

Hello, I don't want use avahi (better known as zeroconf or bonjour) any more, because it doesn't help me in my daily enviroment/work and it is a little open door in the system.

emerge -uDavN runs finde, rebuild some ebuilds
emerge -a --depclean runs fine, removes avahi itself
revdep-rebuild doesn't run fine, nearly every gnome-package want to be rebuild but everyone of them want a avahi-lib and of course they didn't find it (libtool error)

Any idea what to do?

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System needs a complete recompile with emerge -e world
Stupid, but I can't find a better solution.
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comprookie2000 · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 10:37 pm Post subject:

Did you try it with - avahi or -hal -avahi
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vandien · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 03 May 2006 Posts: 137

You sound like you're on the right track, can you post more info on a failed build? does revdep-rebuild start rebuilding packages or does it fail before?

Also, I'm fairly sure avahi has no impact on the system security unless you actually have the avahi service running. No info is broadcast unless /etc/init.d/avahi-daemon is started. So removing avahi support doesn't do much other than make your binaries smaller.

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Sun Jun 03, 2007 11:08 pm Post subject:

I had similar experience some two years ago with howl https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-386827-highlight-libtool.html
resolved with using as-needed (I'm also nuking all the la-s from my system, which is really unsupported)
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Annagul · Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2007 8:19 am Post subject:

I use Gnome and I haven't Avahi installed. The packages has been build with the USE "-avahi" and it works perfectly. What about your make.conf?
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hoschi · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:17 pm Post subject:

hoschi · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:18 pm Post subject:

hoschi · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 3:19 pm Post subject:

I rebuild "libtool" but there is still the same problem

http://www.hottemptation.org/night/libtool.png

/etc/make.conf (avahi is inside again, because without I cant start x11 any longer)

Gergan Penkov · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 8:28 pm Post subject:

Also re-emrging libtool will not help, the problem are the libtool archives or the la-s. There are two ways here one of them remove the use flags (avahi bonjour and so on), unmerge avahi, emerge -N world, after that the problems start to appear or even on emerge -N world. One of the solutions is to track manually the chain of builds to be rebuild, probably starting with glib and gtk and working you up - revdep-rebuild will not help you in this fall. The second possibility is going with emerge -e world.
There are more options here, but I'll not recommend them to you as if the handling is incorrect there could be disastrous results (deleting all the la-s on the system or such).
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hoschi · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 9:43 pm Post subject:

I will do a "emerge -e world" because I always use "emerge -uDavN world" and hope. Should I open a bug?
Because this is really $5&"23!"!!"2 :evil:

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Polynomial-C · Posted: Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:59 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I suggest you (as well as Gregan Penkov does, I suppose) to consider setting LDFLAGS="-Wl,--as-needed" before doing emerge -e world. This should prevent some (probably many) packages from uselessly linking to avahi. On the other hand, not all packages are --as-needed safe. There are still packages in portage, which refuse to compile with --as-needed because of broken Makefiles...

Ah and again my usual disclaimer... don't use --as-needed with binutils prior to version 2.17 as these versions could misbehave when being used with --as-needed...

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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 1:08 am Post subject:

hoschi · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 7:47 am Post subject:

I decided it leave at it is. Normally I a hate it to have a non perfect system, but I move this month to munich (new job and so on).
Maybe later.
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hoschi · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:54 am Post subject:

Fuck off! I will do it!
Can't life with a system what is not "perfect"!
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hoschi · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:21 pm Post subject:

Okay, I compiled over 500 ebuilds for over 14 hours and...it doesn't help

Damn!
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Gergan Penkov · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 10:43 pm Post subject:

Ok, post your full output from revdep-rebuild -pv and the result from

hoschi · Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:36 am Post subject:

Oh

Now it compiles and everything looks well :mrgreen:

libtool seem to be a little bit confused, but now is everything fine

btw. 530 ebuilds in 14 hours at 30 degree temperature :roll:

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