At Thu, 04 Oct 2007 10:31:57 +0200 Bo Ørsted Andresen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thursday 04 October 2007 05:37:19 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> An emerge (of openssl, I believe, but am not sure) a few days ago
>> triggered a request for me to run
>> # revdep-rebuild --library libcrypto.so.0.9.7
>> # revdep-rebuild --library libssl.so.0.9.7
>>
>> I have done so. The revdep-rebuild for libssl found nothing, but the
>> one for libcrypto rebuilt openssl. However rerunning the command
>> again again rebuilt openssh. A msg had explained that this is
>> possible but didn't suggest that the request would never end. I have
>> run the revdep-rebuild for libcrypto 4 times and it keeps rebuilding
>> openssl
>>
>> What should I do to fix this problem?
>
> It also told you to remove lib{crypto,ssl}.so.0.9.7 after running those
> revdep-rebuild commands. revdep-rebuild finds that libssl.so.0.0.7 links
> against libcrypto.so.0.9.7 and the hack (preserve_old_lib from eutils.eclass)
> that the openssl ebuild uses to preserve those libraries until you've done
> this makes it look like they belong to the new version of openssl (even
> though they really don't)..
As always Bo's reply solved the problem completely. I apologize for
missing the remove commands. I shall read the instructions more
carefully in the future.
thank for the help.
allan gottlieb
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