On Mon, Sep 19 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > revdep-rebuild checks everything, revdep-rebuild --library >> > checks just some things. >> > >> > ebuilds sometimes issue messages to check just the libraries known >> > to have been updated, but a full revdep-rebuild after an update >> > will catch those anyway. >> >> Until recently I skipped the "--library" step exactly because I knew >> revdep-rebuild will find and fix the broken packages after I delete >> the old library. So, why bother with the --library step, right? >> >> However. A few weeks ago I got caught when I deleted one of those >> obsolete libraries and only then did I find out that gcc is one of >> the packages that depend on it :( >> >> I don't skip the --library step any more. > > That's odd behaviour, I wonder what caused the difference. > > Surely revdep-rebuild itself can't do this different just because you > specified a library to compare? I wonder if that lib was maybe in the > revdep-rebuild exclude list. > > I'd be interested to track it down for reference, do you remember the > library involved?
It occurs exactly in the case we are discussing libpng ajglap gottlieb # revdep-rebuild; revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14' * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 100% ] * Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done. * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries using /usr/lib64/libpng14.so.14 * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Checking dynamic linking [ 8% ] * found /usr/bin/dia [ 46% ] * found /usr/lib64/dia/libaadl_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libart_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libcairo_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libcgm_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libchronogram_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libcustom_lines_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libcustom_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libdb_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libdia.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libdxf_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/liber_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libflowchart_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libfs_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libgrafcet_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libhpgl_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libistar_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libjackson_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libkaos_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libmetapost_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libmisc_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libnetwork_objects.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libpgf_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libpixbuf_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libpostscript_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libpstricks_filter.so * found /usr/lib64/dia/libpython_plugin.so ^C * ...terminated. Removing incomplete 3_broken.rr 3_errors.rr.
