On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 11:52:13PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> I remember now what I eventually did to fix all my libpng problems back then:
>
> unmerge libpng
> delete everything left with libpng in it's name
> emerge -pvuND world just to see what was now busted
> same with revdep-rebuild
> re-emerge libpng and let portage pick the version to merge
> emerge -avuND world
> revdep-rebuild
> repeat till no problems reported
>
> and lafilefixer --justfixit somewhere in the mix as well just for good
> measure.
>
> This is called the "throw shit at the wall and hope some of it sticks" method
> of updating systems. By happy good fortune, it worked out for me.
>
> aka the dark underside of source-based systems :-)
Am I just extremely lucky or something?
[Thu Jul 01 02:00 ] ww...@gee-mi-ni 9s [ AC | FULL }
~ $ sudo qlop -l libpng
Sat Dec 26 11:09:55 2009 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.41
Sat Jan 30 21:39:03 2010 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.42
Sat Mar 13 01:19:54 2010 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.43
Tue May 11 01:45:15 2010 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1
Tue May 11 01:47:55 2010 >>> media-libs/libpng-1.4.2
[Thu Jul 01 02:00 ] ww...@gee-mi-ni 11s [ AC | FULL }
~ $ sudo qlop -u libpng
Sat Jan 30 21:38:59 2010 <<< media-libs/libpng-1.2.41
Sat Mar 13 01:19:51 2010 <<< media-libs/libpng-1.2.42
Tue May 11 01:45:12 2010 <<< media-libs/libpng-1.2.43
Sat Jun 26 22:14:00 2010 <<< media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1
libpng was installed, slotted on Tuesday May 11
nothing broke.
Didn't run lafilefixer, but did run revdep-rebuild a few times, and
two deep world updates since then. On Jun 28 emerge --depclean --pretend
told me that libpng-1.2 is not used anymore. So I unmerged it (along
with a bunch of other stuff), and ran revdep-rebuild for good measure.
Should I let my breath out now, or should I not be surprised if
this "problem" hits a few weeks down the road?
Cheers,
W
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