Dale wrote: > That's been my experience too. I run @preserved-rebuild when it tells > me to but revdep-rebuild rarely finds anything. Thing is, it has a > time or two. It is best to run revdep-rebuild and be sure than not to > and run the risk of not being able to boot or some other problem that > bites you. Sort of like a ounce of prevention is worth a pound of > cure. ;-) Dale :-) :-)
Example that revdep-rebuild needs to be run from time to time. root@fireball / # revdep-rebuild -i -- -a * 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% ] * broken /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4 (no version information available) * broken /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4.9.3 (no version information available) * Generated new 3_broken.rr * Assigning files to packages * /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4 -> kde-base/kmail * /usr/lib64/libkmanagesieve.so.4.9.3 -> kde-base/kmail * Generated new 4_raw.rr and 4_owners.rr * Cleaning list of packages to rebuild * Generated new 4_pkgs.rr * Assigning packages to ebuilds * Generated new 4_ebuilds.rr * Evaluating package order * Generated new 5_order.rr * All prepared. Starting rebuild emerge --complete-graph=y --oneshot --with-bdeps y --backtrack=30 --keep-going -v -j10 --quiet-build=n -1 -a kde-base/kmail:4 .......... These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild R ] kde-base/kmail-4.9.3:4 USE="handbook kontact (-aqua) -debug {-test}" 0 kB Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] There's that rare instance right there. First time in a while too. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words!