Randy Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:41:37 -0400:
> Lindsay Haisley wrote: >> When in doubt on these things, I generally winnow down the slotted >> components and re-emerge everything involved, and run revdep-rebuild >> enough to satisfy me that there aren't any _obvious_ breakages. > > Hey Lindsay, you might have a look at the output of emerge --depclean > -p. If you have a lot of old packages on your machine, there's no > telling what versions of them are being linked. If you can get rid of > things that don't belong anymore, you might find that revdep-rebuild > will find a lot of breakages (indicating that packages were linking to > old versions of packages). Do be cautious before blindly unmerging > things though! Just what I was going to suggest. gnome-vfs-1.x would have been part of gnome-1, which AFAIK is long gone. If you still have it around, chances are you have a lot of stale packages still around. Cleaning some of that thicket out should be a good thing, but of course you're likely to have a bunch of bad revdep-rebuild dependencies to fix after you do. One thing you might try for anything you are in doubt on, assuming you don't use FEATURES=buildpkg and therefore have the binary packages already, is to use quickpkg to package up anything before removal. That way, if something critical stops working, you should still be able to remerge from the binary-package. (In the event portage itself stops working, since the binpkg is simply a bz2'ed tarball with some extra metadata tacked onto the end, it's possible to extract individual files manually, until one gets a working system once again. If the system's broken to the point that doesn't work either, use any LiveCD with tar- bunzip support.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
