infinite @preserved lib: package: insync

[juniper]

Hello,

I have a package

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 * Updating .desktop files database ...                                          [ ok ]
 * Updating icons cache ...                                                      [ ok ]
 * Updating shared mime info database ...                                        [ ok ]
>>> Original instance of package unmerged safely.
 * Updating .desktop files database ...                                          [ ok ]
 * Updating icons cache ...                                                      [ ok ]
 * Updating shared mime info database ...                                        [ ok ]
>>> net-misc/insync-3.9.4.60020-r4 merged.

>>> Completed (1 of 1) net-misc/insync-3.9.4.60020-r4::ppfeufer-gentoo-overlay

 * GNU info directory index is up-to-date.

!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: dev-qt/qtxmlpatterns-5.15.16
 *  - /usr/lib64/libQt5XmlPatterns.so.5
 *  - /usr/lib64/libQt5XmlPatterns.so.5.15.16
 *      used by /opt/insync/PySide2/Qt/qml/QtQuick/XmlListModel/libqmlxmllistmodelplugin.so (net-misc/insync-3.9.4.60020-r4)
Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries

It is from the stated repository.

I have run @preserved-rebuild several times and it keeps showing up. What should I do?

[nicop]

It's a binary package, so you can't do anything.
dev-qt/qtxmlpatterns should be a rdep.

[Hu]

To elaborate on nicop's answer: fixing a preserved-lib relation requires rebuilding the package. Since this is in /opt, it is (probably) a prebuilt binary package, so emerge merely recopies the existing wrong files, and does not rebuild them. This is why emerge @preserved-rebuild is not helping. You need the maintainer of the package to fix this, either by setting a version constraint that prohibits Portage switching the version of qtxmlpatterns or by providing a version that is built with the qtxmlpatterns you use now.

[juniper]

ok. Thanks. I will try to contact the maintainer.

[juniper]

same issue still.

the page for this overlay is at

https://gpo.zugaina.org/net-misc/insync

how does one contact the maintainer?