-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On 05/21/2012 07:16 PM, Thanasis wrote: > on 05/21/2012 08:49 PM Michael Mol wrote the following: >> On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 1:28 PM, Thanasis >> <thana...@asyr.hopto.org> wrote: >>> After a recent update of dev-libs/libffi from version 3.0.10 to >>> 3.0.11 the ebuild log suggests to run: >>> >>> # revdep-rebuild --library '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5' >>> >>> and once finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to >>> delete the old libraries, like so: >>> >>> # rm '/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5' >>> >>> However by querying: >>> >>> equery b /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 * Searching for >>> /usr/lib/libffi.so.5 ... dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 >>> (/usr/lib64/libffi.so.5) >>> >>> we see that /usr/lib64/libffi.so.5 is reported as belonging to >>> dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11. Is that normal? >> >> I think so. It might be clearer if equery omitted the version >> number, or if it tracked which versions of a package a file >> belonged to. > > So, are you saying that libffi.so.5 does *not* actually belong to > dev-libs/libffi-3.0.11 ? > >> >> (If I'm wrong, then I suspect you found a bug) >> >> > > I believe the old library appears to be owned by the new version because it is "preserved". Once you run the revdep-rebuild command, everything should link to the new linker name and you should be safe to remove the old library. See the functions preserve_old_lib{_notify} in eutils eclass for more details and the "preserve-libs" option for the FEATURES variable in make.conf.
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