ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
 

on 05/21/2012 09:52 PM Markos Chandras wrote the following:

>
> 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.
>
>

I don't see any "preserve-libs" option in the man page of make.conf.
Anyway, the bottom line is that equery may list an installed package as
owning a certain library file, when in reality that file belonged to an
older version of the package than the one installed, in which case it
may be or appear misleading.

ebuild log suggests to remove old libraries
 

On 05/21/2012 09:50 PM, Thanasis wrote:
> on 05/21/2012 09:52 PM Markos Chandras wrote the following:
>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>>
>
> I don't see any "preserve-libs" option in the man page of
> make.conf. Anyway, the bottom line is that equery may list an
> installed package as owning a certain library file, when in reality
> that file belonged to an older version of the package than the one
> installed, in which case it may be or appear misleading.
>
Yes sorry this "preserve-libs" feature is part of portage-2.2. In any
case, a revdep-rebuild will fix your problem.

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Markos Chandras / Gentoo Linux Developer / Key ID: B4AFF2C2