On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 10:25 AM, Rudmer van Dijk <rudmer.van.d...@casema.nl> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 May 2010, Paul Hartman wrote: >> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:27 PM, Volker Armin Hemmann >> >> <volkerar...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: >> >> On Sunday 09 May 2010, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: >> >> > On Sonntag 09 Mai 2010, Rudmer van Dijk wrote: >> >> > > On Sunday 09 May 2010, walt wrote: >> >> > > > This looks to me like a major portage screwup. I see that on my >> >> > > > ~amd64 machine I have both versions of libpng, but the 1.2.43-r1 >> >> > > > doesn't install a pkg-config file because 1.4.2 installs one with >> >> > > > the same name, and just as bad, version 1.2.43-r1 removed the >> >> > > > libpng12 header files. >> >> > > > >> >> > > > For now, I'd suggest just going back to to 1.2.43 if you can -- >> >> > > > maybe mask >> >> > > > >> >> > > > >1.2.43 in package.mask? >> >> > > > >> >> > > > Meanwhile I'm trying to fix firefox so I can read the bug report >> >> > > > mentioned by Andras. >> >> > > >> >> > > well I'm getting into a .la hell... >> >> > > you need to rebuild packages which are themselves not invalid and >> >> > > therefore can't be found by revdep-rebuild... >> >> > > >> >> > > searching with "grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`" lists >> >> > > all .la files with a bad png version, rebuilding those will fix the >> >> > > system. after that all packages found by revdep-rebuild can be >> >> > > emerged. >> >> > > >> >> > > Rudmer >> >> > >> >> > run la fixer >> >> >> >> ah, yes I knew there was something easier 8-) >> >> well running `lafilefixer --justfixit` did not find anything so I got >> >> them all >> >> >> >> thanks! >> >> >> >> Rudmer >> > >> > sadly, it does not get them all. >> > The only save way: >> > grep -R for png12 and remerge all packages whose files pop up. >> > >> > For example revdep-rebuilt failed to rebuild pygtk - because of glade. >> > But it never tried to rebuild glade... >> >> In my box (~amd64, unmasked portage) emerge automagically slotted 1.2 >> and emerged 1.4 in slot 0. And everything seems to work and be happy. >> revdep-rebuild finds nothing wrong. So maybe the easy fix is to >> "emerge libpng:1.2"? > > yeah, thats what I have now... I still need png 1.2 for VMware Player. > > but in my case, I had 1.2.43-r2 which is in slot 0?! > so on install of 1.4.2 it deinstalled the 1.2.43-r2 version. manually > installed 1.2.43-r1 to get 1.2 back.
You're right, in fact after updating again it wanted to downgrade because of nxserver... So I masked 1.2.43-r2 and now everyone is happy again.
