Bug 646066 – media-tv/plex-media-server-1.10.1 - revdep-rebuild keeps wanting to rebuild

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dudu Edri 2018-01-29 18:54:30 UTC]

Created attachment 517080 [details]
emerge --info output

plex-media-server-1.10.1 upstream comes with pre-compiled libraries for its internal use. Some of them have missing library dependencies, and so revdep-rebuild wants to rebuild the package over and over again. Rebuilding the package doesn't cause revdep-rebuild to stop asking for a rebuild, because the libraries aren't compiled locally but are provided with the package and just extracted to /usr/lib64/plexmediaserver.

I'm sure that making plex to work natively is complicated, but a simple workaround is possible: just add "SEARCH_DIRS_MASK=/usr/lib64/plexmediaserver" to /etc/revdep-rebuild/* to prevent revdep-rebuild from searching plex internal libraries.

[Comment 1 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2018-01-29 18:59:33 UTC]

Looks like it is related to bug #644694.

[Comment 2 Jonathan Vasquez (RETIRED) 2018-01-29 20:44:57 UTC]

Thanks Dudu. I tested your fix and it worked fine. Fixed in:

https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=b7b5b2617c1a25af25fa51f50bbd853ba55caea3

1.10.1-r1.

[Comment 3 Jeroen Roovers (RETIRED) 2018-01-31 05:05:54 UTC]

*** Bug 646162 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***