On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Thanasis <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote:
> After a recent update of dev-libs/libffi from version 3.0.10 to 3.0.11
> the ebuild log suggests to run:
>
>  # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
>
> and once finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
> delete the old libraries, like so:
>
>  # rm '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5'
>
> However by querying:
>
> equery b /usr/lib/libffi.so.5
>  * Searching for /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 ...
> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5)
>
> we see that /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5 is reported as belonging to
> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11. Is that normal?

I think so. It might be clearer if equery omitted the version number,
or if it tracked which versions of a package a file belonged to.

(If I'm wrong, then I suspect you found a bug)


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