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| author | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2021-12-05 02:47:11 +0000 |
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| committer | V3n3RiX <venerix@koprulu.sector> | 2021-12-05 02:47:11 +0000 |
| commit | 2771f79232c273bc2a57d23bf335dd81ccf6af28 (patch) | |
| tree | c8af0fd04194aed03cf067d44e53c7edd3e9ab84 /metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries | |
| parent | e9d044d4b9b71200a96adfa280848858c0f468c9 (diff) | |
gentoo resync : 05.12.2021
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| -rw-r--r-- | metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt b/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt index 7154bc497e2e..68aa6af5e8f1 100644 --- a/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt +++ b/metadata/news/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 |