At Sun, 20 Feb 2005 14:49:16 +0100 Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dan Johansson wrote: >> Hi, >> When I run a revdep-rebuild it will allways rebuild OO (I'm using >> the standard OO ebuild, not any binary version). >> Here is the output of 'revdep-rebuild --pretend --verbose': [ snipped ] >> Someone who has a clue why revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild OO (even >> if it just just rebuilt a few minutes ago)? >> Regards, >> --Dan >> > > You see that note at the beginning of the rebuild? > > Checking reverse dependencies... > Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by any package update, > will be recompiled. > > And then notice the two packages that are being rebuilt: > > [ebuild R ] app-office/openoffice-1.1.4 +curl -debug -gnome > -hardened -java +kde -nptl +zlib 0 kB > [ebuild R ] net-www/opera-7.54-r3 +spell -static 0 kB > > I think (and I must stress "think") that this is an unavoidable > conflict between revdep-rebuild and certain "special" programs. > > Opera is, of course, ultimately a binary that you're extracting rather [ snip: I don't have opera. ] > OO.o is just "weird" (for want of a better word); the difficulty of > compiling it, in addition to the length of compile, is the reason the > binary is available in Portage. I suspect that the difficulty of > compiling it is the issue in this case, because it seems quite likely > to me that one of the "weirdnesses" could well be binary components > squirreled away in that extremely long compile, which revdep-rebuild > doesn't know how to (or is not built to) deal with. > > So both of these programs likely share a common weirdness factor of > having some binary components alongside some compiled components > (again, IANAP, this is my impression from working with them in the > past). I can't comment on any weirdness in OO.o or confirm/deny that it has binary components. But I can say that just having OO.o emerged (from sources) does not by itself cause revdep-rebuild to complain. I have OO.o and just now (right after a sync) tried revdep-rebuild and it found nothing to do. I always pay attention to posts involving revdep-rebuild, since I depend <groan> on it working correctly. [ snip ] allan PS Holly, I also often read your posts as I find them well-written and helpful. -- [email protected] mailing list
