On Thursday 22 July 2010 13:30:49 Bill Longman wrote:
> On 7/22/10, Arnau Bria <ar...@emergetux.net> wrote:
> > On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 10:53:54 +0200
> > 
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> >> On Thursday 22 July 2010 10:04:46 Arnau Bria wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > 
> >> > long time since last update. I was trying to update my system and it
> >> 
> >> > failed at netpbm with this error:
> >> Yes, I can see it was a long time ago :-)
> > 
> > I really don't care about "big" gentoo updates. Some years ago I did,
> > but now it usually goes fine. minor issues :-)
> > 
> >> You hit the jpeg issue and that was a while back. We've had the
> >> linpng issue since then. Install jpeg:7 and try again.
> >> 
> >> You can expect to use a lot of revdep-rebuild to get all this going
> >> again.
> > 
> > revdep-rebuild against libjpeg.so.7 solved the issue.
> > 
> > So, I suppose it did rebuild some dep package (don't ask me which :-) )
> > that solved the issue

Well, as Alan said, next time it falls apart (if it is the linpng issue) it 
may also require the incantation lafilefixer --justfixit, in-between sessions 
of revdep-rebuild.

If you search the M/L you'll see a few of us cussing about it.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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