On Monday 10 May 2010 23:27:12 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: > > > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: > > > > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my > > > > > ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 > > > > > doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with > > > > > the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the > > > > > libpng12 header files. > > > > > > > > > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- > > > > > maybe mask > > > > > > > > > > >1.2.43 in package.mask? > > > > > > > > > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report > > > > > mentioned by Andras. > > > > > > > > well I'm getting into a .la hell... > > > > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and > > > > therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild... > > > > > > > > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists all > > > > .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the > > > > system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be > > > > emerged. > > > > > > > > Rudmer > > > > > > run la fixer > > > > ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-) > > well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got > > them all > > > > thanks! > > > > Rudmer > > sadly, it does not get them all. > The only save way: > grep -R for png12 and remerge all packages whose files pop up. > > For example revdep-rebuilt failed to rebuild pygtk - because of glade. But > it never tried to rebuild glade...
Shall I wait to update my box until a safe way through all this is established? I can't afford to break things right now. -- Regards, Mick
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