On Tuesday 11 May 2010 16:05:19 George Prowse wrote:
> On 11/05/2010 04:52, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Monday 10 May 2010 23:10:48 Markos Chandras wrote:
> >> provide a user friendly way to migrate to the new libpng without the
> >> need to spend so many hours digging around on which packages to
> >> rebuild.
> >
> > if you're "digging around" then clearly you havent done the obvious and
> > run revdep-rebuild ? that is pretty user-friendly.
> >
> > Samuli is right though ... this isnt really something that can be
> > reverted without breaking things just as much. either help out with the
> > problem (see the open bug report), or add yourself to the cc list and
> > wait. harping on people only serves to annoy.
> > -mike
>
> I have run revdep-rebuild about 30 times and I still can't fix it.
> revdep-rebuild does not fix it and libpng needs to have some serious
> action before it goes stable because I booted into, basically a
> completely broken machine because I had to stop a large upgrade on the
> previous emerge (~300 packages) in the middle.
I am still trying to find a decent solution to fix all the ~arch systems.
Currently they are totally broken because of this upgrade. If you think that
the onliner that Samuli suggested works, please prepare a news item as quickly
as possible
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Markos Chandras (hwoarang)
Gentoo Linux Developer
Web: http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org
