on Monday 09/01/2008 Matthew R. Lee([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> On Monday 01 September 2008 12:23:03 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > > Yesterday I was having problems with a few packages, like openoffice,
> > > because of java issues. The advice I found to correct the problem was to
> > > run python-updater, which I did. It reemerged 33 packages one of which
> > > was alsa-libs. It reemerged alsa-lib, it did not upgrade it.
> >
> > This should fix it:
> >
> > revdep-rebuild -X -i --ask
> >
> > the problem seems to be a link problem with the ALSA lib. When you hear
> > "link problem", revdep-rebuild is the solution most of the time. It
> > will rebuild packages that use the ALSA lib.
>
> I ran revdep-rebuild last night after the big reemerge it didn't pick
> anything
> up. Just to be sure I re-ran it when I got your email. I doesn't want to
> rebuild anything.
I discovered that python-updater can emerge obsolete packages because
it tries to emerge exactly what it had before, so when running it,
emerge by hand without the = sign and the version numbers -- works
much better that way.
Not sure if this will help, but possibly.
Don't know how the alsa stuff got in python-updater, never heard of
python bindings for that.
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