linux.gentoo.user

Bob Young wrote:
> After a recent emerge -DuN world, messages for one of the packages stated
> that it was necessary to run revdep-rebuild after emerging the package, so I
> did. The revdep-rebuild ended up merging six packages, with one of them
> being gcc. Emerging all six packages took several hours, and I noticed that
> gcc by itself took a significant amount of time.
>
> The final message stated that I could re-run revdep-rebuild to verify that
> all inconsistencies had been resolved, unfortunately, I did not add a -p to
> the command and to my surprise it spent the next couple of hours or so
> emerging gcc again.
>
> After that finished, I again ran revdep-rebuild although this time with a -p
> and below is the output:
> << SNIP >>
>
> How do I determine if this is a case of "orphaned file, deep dependency,
> binary package or specially evaluated library" and, if it is one of those,
> how do I determine which one, and then how do I fix this...?
>
> Thanks for listening,
> Bob Young
> San Jose, CA
>
>

This may help: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=125728 I'm not
sure what changed but mine does not do this any more. I'm using
app-portage/gentoolkit-0.2.3-r1 at the moment.

Dale

:-) :-)
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