Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-18 Thread Tony Davison
On Friday 17 June 2005 23:25, Zac Medico wrote: Tony Davison wrote: I just thought I would let you know what I've done to resolve this problem. I have emerged gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 and made an entry in my make.conf of SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt. I then ran revdep-rebuild and all ran without any

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Paul
On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: snip revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the same binary, not build a new one. I just thought I would let you know what I've done to resolve this problem. I

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Tony Davison
On Friday 17 June 2005 10:58, Paul wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: snip revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the same binary, not build a new one. I just thought I would let

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Zac Medico
Tony Davison wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 10:58, Paul wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: snip revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall the same binary, not build a new one. I just thought I

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Tony Davison
On Friday 17 June 2005 20:25, Zac Medico wrote: Tony Davison wrote: On Friday 17 June 2005 10:58, Paul wrote: On Thursday 16 Jun 2005 19:45, Zac Medico wrote: snip revdep-rebuild is irrelevant to ooo-bin, and others, because you cannot rebuild a binary package. All it does is reinstall

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-17 Thread Zac Medico
Tony Davison wrote: I just thought I would let you know what I've done to resolve this problem. I have emerged gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 and made an entry in my make.conf of SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/opt. I then ran revdep-rebuild and all ran without any open office errors. I may be misreading this thread

revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all it's dependencies

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Zac Medico
Zac Medico wrote: Mark Knecht wrote: On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005 22:34:51 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: Please correct me if I'm wrong but if what revdep-rebuild does is important then I want to kow about any program on my system that doesn't have all

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Wade Brown
Liar! Well, we forgive you, I think =). Actually the better (Gentoo suggested) way to squelch these packages is to exclude /opt from the search path in the revdep-rebuild script. Just do EDITOR `which revdep-rebuild` and take /opt out of the SEARCH_DIRS, most anything that goes in there should

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Maybe a better way is to emerge hard-masked gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 (cause it's only tested on x86). In it there is a new version on 'revdep-rebuild' which allows you to mask certain dirs, by using (mine): ... SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/home /mnt /opt/sun-jdk /opt/vmware/lib /opt/OpenOffice ... For more

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: It would be nice, I would think, to have some info somewhere on how the binary package was built - what flags, what gcc, etc., if only for reference. Binary packages are not compiled by Gentoo, so that information may not be easy to come

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Mark Knecht
On 6/16/05, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:55:09 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: It would be nice, I would think, to have some info somewhere on how the binary package was built - what flags, what gcc, etc., if only for reference. Binary packages are not

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, June 16, 2005 10:20 pm, Mark Knecht said: Binary packages are not compiled by Gentoo, so that information may not be easy to come by. Oh!! I had no idea that was the case. I always assumed that this was done by you guys for a few specific packages. If they come from elsewhere then

Re: revdep-rebuild and -bin packages (was Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?)

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Varner
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 22:24 +0300, Rumen Yotov wrote: Hi, Maybe a better way is to emerge hard-masked gentoolkit-0.2.1_pre3 (cause it's only tested on x86). In it there is a new version on 'revdep-rebuild' which allows you to mask certain dirs, by using (mine): ... SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/home