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| author |   Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2021-11-22 06:30:45 +0000 |
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| committer | Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> | 2021-11-22 06:31:58 +0000 |
| commit | ef0cfc2c0e68299ddfa355732c76cf7d9ed83fcb (patch) | |
| tree | 5ca473d423180e229edb7c98801d01e1264694e9 /2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries | |
| parent | 2021-10-18-libxcrypt-migration-stable: mention unmasking libcrypt:0/1 for delay (diff) | |
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2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries: mention when it's ok to skip -e
It should be okay to skip -e @world and instead only rebuild libraries +
their consumers in some cases.
Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/811462
Signed-off-by: Sam James <sam@gentoo.org>
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| -rw-r--r-- | 2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt | 7 |
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diff --git a/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt b/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt index 7154bc4..68aa6af 100644 --- a/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt +++ b/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt @@ -93,7 +93,12 @@ Step 3. Given that there are possible other side-effects of the corruption/bug, Note that binary packages may need to be discarded given they may contain corrupt metadata. - If no libraries were broken, it is likely safe to skip this step. + If no libraries were broken, it is likely safe to skip this step. It + should be sufficient, for resource-constrained machines, to simply + rebuild any broken libraries and their consumers (reverse-dependencies): + revdep-rebuild may help you do this. + + (If you do not know what that means, please proceed with Step 3.) Please see the wiki [0] for a full description of the background of this problem and handling corner cases such as e.g. already |