On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 9:58 AM, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 09:51:32 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > >> I guess then that the constant messages about doing an emerge >> @preserved-rebuild aren't necessarily to be followed, or at least not >> worried about if they fail as whatever program needs the libraries >> still has the old versions? > > They should be followed and the problem fixed. Not only is it untidy > leaving old copies of libraries around but, as Volker says, the old > versions can prevent revdep-rebuild working correctly. > > > -- > Neil Bothwick
Right now I'm seeing that @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild want to do different things. revdep-rebuild is rebuilding nss which may or may not fail. @preserved-rebuild wanted to rebuild eveolution which did fail. I'm somewhat unclear as to how to proceed. Using emerge is currently telling me I should do an emerge -e world to fully take advantage of new features in portage-2.2. I guess that message wouldn't be there unless it was really a good thing to do but that's a lot of downtime for me. - Mark
