Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 15:40:35 +, Graham Murray wrote: > The difference is that with the new @preserved-rebuild the 'old' library > is not deleted until all of the dependent packages have been > successfully rebuilt to use the 'new' library. This also means that if you don't run emerge @preserv

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
Thanks everyone for the input, it's being quite informative and valuable. I guess I'll have to research on this at some point. Still I'd like to keep responses coming if anyone can bring some light into the issue. :) I am responding only to one post, but I've read Alan's one as well, as said, than

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Alex Schuster
Jesús Guerrero writes: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> >> @preserved-

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 02 November 2009 17:01:17 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon > > wrote: > > On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick > >> > >> wrote: > >> > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100,

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild

2009-11-02 Thread Graham Murray
Jesús Guerrero writes: > Thanks for the feedback. However there's one thing I can't understand: > whether the libraries are kept of removed is decided at the merge time, > isn't it? So, whatever breaks, breaks when using "emerge" to update the > offending library, the one that will break the ABI.

Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild vs. @preserved-rebuild [was: Kmplayer, video and audio not syncing.]

2009-11-02 Thread Jesús Guerrero
On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 16:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Monday 02 November 2009 15:58:57 Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> On Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:25:08 +, Neil Bothwick >> >> wrote: >> > On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:58:03 +0100, Jesús Guerrero wrote: >> >> @preserved-rebuild never worked for me, maybe