I've got /var/db/pkg as a symlink: $ file /var/db/pkg /var/db/pkg: symbolic link to `/mnt/.portage/pkg Previously, this posed no problem when running revdep-rebuild. Now, however, it fails to assign broken files to packages: esla ~ # revdep-rebuild -i * Configuring search environment for revdep-rebuild * Checking reverse dependencies * Packages containing binaries and libraries broken by a package update * will be emerged. * Collecting system binaries and libraries * Generated new 1_files.rr * Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH * Generated new 2_ldpath.rr * Checking dynamic linking consistency [ 5% ] * broken /usr/bin/cinelerra (requires libraw1394.so.8) <snip> [ 100% ] * Generated new 3_broken.rr * Assigning files to packages * !!! /usr/bin/cinelerra not owned by any package is broken !!! * /usr/bin/cinelerra -> (none) <snip> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make /var/db/pkg a symlink. 2. Break dynamic linking in your favorite way. 3. run revdep-rebuild. Thanks to some forum love from FuzzyRay (thread linked in URL field), it was discovered that line 288 in /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild needs to be changed from: find /var/db/pkg -type f -name CONTENTS -print0 | to find /var/db/pkg/ -type f -name CONTENTS -print0 | This fixes the problem on my machine.
$ svn commit -m "Restore follow symlinks option (-L) to the find /var/db/pkg command so that revdep-rebuild works even when /var/db/pkg is a symlink. (Bug #317571)" Sending bin/revdep-rebuild Transmitting file data . Committed revision 777.
Created attachment 233413 [details, diff] A simple patch Added a trailing slash to the pkg dir so it will work with symlinks.
Disregard my patch. -L is 10^6 better. I would, however, up the severity of this bug since it prevents revdep-rebuild from working at all for people who use the mentioned symlink. It's been dogging me for some time but this is the 1st chance I've had to look into it.
Released in gentoolkit-0.3.0_rc11
