On 2/19/07, Alan McKinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Monday 19 February 2007, Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm not clear why revdep-rebuild is showing lots of broken
> linkages but then telling me everything is in order and there is no
> work to do to clean up the system.
>
> I haven't seen this before. What's causing it?
>
> What's the process to get this cleaned up and down to no messages
> about broken things?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark
My guess would be that portage cannot assign the broken binaries
(/usr/bin/avibench etc) to an ebuild, and therefore there cannot be
anything to emerge.
They might be orphan binaries from a previous incomplete unmerge, or
something locally compiled, or even files installed from a foreign
package system (.tgz or .rpm perhaps?)
alan
Alan,
Seems reasonable. Would I (Could I?) then do an equery depends on
each binary and assuming nothing depends on it remove them by hand
without causing damage?
I'd want to do another revdep-rebuild every so often to ensure that
things remained consistent.
Thanks,
Mark
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