begin quote On Thu, 05 Feb 2004 00:34:28 -0500 Grant Goodyear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > > *Sigh* Okay, it seems that I'm brain dead tonight, but I'm completely > > confused. Exactly what is the issue (in terms that old/tired folks > can understand) Scenario: I just found a system image around, up-to-date (then) version of Gentoo running openssl 0.9.6. I took a set of GRP builds from a current system, did 'emerge -ik gnome kde' on it. Ran revdep-rebuild because almost nothing worked, found out that since I hadn't updated the whole system, only parts, openssl was still at 0.9.6, whereas all binaries considered "thats okay for RDEPEND" ... And thereafter fell over with linkingerrors. So my question was for the generic case of things like this, Can the binaries be made more reliable? Perhaps this sort of thing be worked around in portage-code? ( wrap a consistency check of linking before installing? demand that a system is "updated" ? ) Or should binaries have more metadata in them, perhaps a specific requirement for libraries? (sheesh, then its down to RPM again. that's bad. ) Is it easier to understand the problem now, Grant? //Spider -- begin .signature This is a .signature virus! Please copy me into your .signature! See Microsoft KB Article Q265230 for more information. end
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