On Saturday, September 16, 2023 2:44:03 P.M. AEST Dale wrote: > Howdy, > > A couple of my video players are not playing videos correctly. I've > rebuilt a few things but no change. Some work fine, some give a error > about a bad index or something, some just don't even try at all. The > videos come from various sources and are of different file extensions. > I can't find a rhyme or reason to the failure. So, my plan, do a emerge > -ek world to reinstall all packages instead of just the obvious ones > that isn't fixing the issue. I figure that should catch whatever is out > of sync and fix the problem. If not, then try to figure out why it is > breaking the hard way. This is basically a emerge -e world, just faster > on my main system. > > What I did before this. I ran emerge -eak world on my main install. > Any packages that showed ebuild, which means it doesn't have a package > binary, I emerged in my chroot. Once it was done installing, I copied > the binary package over to my main install. However, when I run emerge > -eak world again on my main install, it still shows ebuild for these > packages. >
> > Most package are the way they should be, showing a binary. Like this: > > > [binary R ] x11-libs/libX11-1.8.6::gentoo USE="-doc -test" > ABI_X86="32 (64) (-x32)" 0 KiB > > > Does anyone know if there is some reason these packages won't use a > binary for some reason? I've recompiled some of these twice now with it > refusing to show it using a binary. I expect memtest and a couple > others to fail but never ran into this before. > > I do this so that my main system updates faster. A couple of those > packages has a bit longer compile time. I might add, I've done this > countless times doing updates with no problems, most likely even with > these packages. Today it just refuses to cooperate. > > Oh, I posted about handbrake and opencascade blocking some updates in > another thread a while back, I unmerged those and Kicad which I think > used opencascade. It did update some video stuff the other day. I feel > some package is out of sync with some other package and hope a reinstall > will fix it. Otherwise, could be a bug in some package version. > > Any ideas? Does your compile server have exactly the same USE flags (and other flags) set as the target system? -- Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/ Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro
