On Fri, Nov 25, 2011 at 12:59 PM, Florian Philipp <li...@binarywings.net> wrote: > Am 25.11.2011 19:11, schrieb Pandu Poluan: >> >> On Nov 26, 2011 12:05 AM, "微菜" <micro...@fedoraproject.org >> <mailto:micro...@fedoraproject.org>> wrote: >>> >>> 于 2011年11月24日 15:34, justin 写道: >>> > On 24/11/11 06:27, Paul Hartman wrote: >>> >> Hi, >>> >> >>> >> After emerging glibc-2.14.1 today, pam stopped working, which >>> >> prevented KDE from working and some other things. I got this kind of >>> >> message: >>> >> >>> >> /lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.14' not found (required by >>> >> /lib64/libcrypt.so.1) >>> >> >>> >> There were no @preserved-rebuild and revdep-rebuild found nothing. I >>> >> rebuilt pam and things seem to be working again. Are there any other >>> >> packages I should rebuild before encountering a problem? Or some way >>> >> to detect which need to be rebuilt? Should I re-emerge world against >>> >> my new glibc? :) >>> >> >>> >> Thanks, >>> >> Paul >>> >> >>> > >>> > Hi Paul, >>> > >>> > after an glibc upgrade it is time to do an >>> > >>> > emerge -e system world >>> >>> you must be kidding me . it will take days to complete. >>> >> >> On my virtualized servers, emerge -e @system @world, a total of >> 170-something packages, takes only about 6-7 hours. Remember, these are >> VMs, which means the 2 vCPUs I assigned them are actually shared with >> other VMs. >> >> On a non-virtualized system, should be faster. Of course, if you have >> sizable packages, it might take around 24 hours to complete. >> >> Rgds, >> > > I've used Gentoo since 2006 and never had any reason to emerge -e. I can > also cite posts on this mailing list going back as far as 2007 (just my > local archive, mind you) that say it is unnecessary for glibc updates. > Or, to cite Volker Armin Hemmann's eloquent reply from 08-11-2007: "no" ;-)
Can I detect which packages need to be rebuilt (revdep-rebuild finds nothing), other than waiting for something to fail? Or do you think the messages are a false alarm, symptoms of already-loaded programs and will go away after my next reboot?
