Bug 401345 – net-libs/gnutls should leave the libraries from old version

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Maciej Piechotka 2012-01-29 16:22:32 UTC]

As wget might depend on net-libs/gnutls update of the latter should leave old library in place to allow cave fix-linkage/revdep-rebuild.

[Comment 1 Dane Smith (RETIRED) 2012-01-30 16:10:56 UTC]

This issue has been fixed in portage-2.2*. Portage itself will keep needed libraries on the system until the revdeps have been rebuilt.As such, I don't think it's something we should be rehashing in a different way on a per package basis.

[Comment 2 Maciej Piechotka 2012-01-30 21:04:28 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This issue has been fixed in portage-2.2*. Portage itself will keep needed
> libraries on the system until the revdeps have been rebuilt.As such, I don't
> think it's something we should be rehashing in a different way on a per package
> basis.

Please note that portage is not the only package manager in Gentoo. Paludis don't do this and I don't know about pkgcore.

[Comment 3 Maciej Piechotka 2012-02-01 22:00:15 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> This issue has been fixed in portage-2.2*. Portage itself will keep needed
> libraries on the system until the revdeps have been rebuilt.As such, I don't
> think it's something we should be rehashing in a different way on a per package
> basis.

I asked on the forum[1] and from what I understand >=portage-2.2 is masked and will not be unmasked soon. Furthermore it seems that PMS is not mandating that behaviour and therefore it may be broken with 3-rd party  PM.

[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-911138-start-0-postdays-0-postorder-asc-highlight-.html

[Comment 4 Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) 2012-11-04 05:24:40 UTC]

Portage 2.1 got preserved-rebuild.