[gentoo-user] emerge @preserved-rebuild loop

Hi there!

Any idea why this happens? It's no problem, I'm just curious.

root@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies ... done!
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214
[ebuild R ] kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y

[...]

!!! existing preserved libs:
>>> package: sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3
* - /lib64/libreadline.so
* - /lib64/libreadline.so.5
* - /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2
* used by /usr/bin/calgebra (kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2)
>>> package: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20091004_rc1
* - /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62
* - /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
* used by /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so
(app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214)
* used by /usr/lib32/libImlib.so.1.9.15 (app-emulation/emul-linux-
x86-gtklibs-20071214)
* used by /usr/lib32/libimlib-jpeg.so (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-
gtklibs-20071214)
Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
root@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies ... done!
[ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214
[ebuild R ] kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2

Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

Wonko

On Thursday 29 October 2009, Alex Schuster wrote:
> Hi there!
>
> Any idea why this happens? It's no problem, I'm just curious.
>
> root@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ... done!
> [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214
> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2
>
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No] y
>
> [...]
>
> !!! existing preserved libs:
> >>> package: sys-libs/readline-6.0_p3
>
> * - /lib64/libreadline.so
> * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5
> * - /lib64/libreadline.so.5.2
> * used by /usr/bin/calgebra (kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2)
>
> >>> package: app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-baselibs-20091004_rc1
>
> * - /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62
> * - /usr/lib32/libjpeg.so.62.0.0
> * used by /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-jpeg.so
> (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214)
> * used by /usr/lib32/libImlib.so.1.9.15 (app-emulation/emul-linux-
> x86-gtklibs-20071214)
> * used by /usr/lib32/libimlib-jpeg.so (app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-
> gtklibs-20071214)
> Use emerge @preserved-rebuild to rebuild packages using these libraries
> root@tanja src --> emerge -a @preserved-rebuild
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies ... done!
> [ebuild R ] app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs-20071214
> [ebuild R ] kde-base/kalgebra-4.3.2
>
> Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]

This has been asked, which may indicate there is something strange about
kalgebra or emerge sometimes confuses itself. My solution was eventually to
delete /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry and then revdep-rebuild to
CYA.

HTH
-Robin
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