On Mon, 1 Jan 2007 22:16:46 +0200 Uwe Thiem wrote: > On 01 January 2007 19:15, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Monday 01 January 2007 08:16, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > > about '[gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild': > > > revdep-rebuild produces a long list of binaries to be rebuilt. > > > Not wuite surprising since I haven't done it on that box for a > > > long while. Problem is it tells me that at least for one binary > > > no ebuild exists but it doesn't tell me which binary. Bummer! How > > > do I find out? > > > > ??? > > I agree. ;-) > > > > > Are you running with the -q option? > > No -q option here. Straight revdep-rebuild. > > > Normally in the "assigning file to > > packages" stage it will produce error text like "<file> not owned > > by any package is broken". > > Yes, I know. > > > Maybe check your output again? Or run with the -v > > option to see if you get any extra messages? > > I swear on a whole barrel of Windhoek Lager that it did not mention > any particular file. The issue is resolved meanwhile (see my other > mail), so I can not reproduce the same output and post it here > anymore. > > Uwe
One can list binaries known to portage with: cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/ If that's compared to /usr/bin/*, orphaned binaries can be identified. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
