Bug 459924 – app-eselect/eselect-opencl: leaves orphaned symlinks in /usr/lib after unmerging

• Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Jason Lamb 2013-03-01 21:38:43 UTC]

When doing an emerge -C intel-ocl-sdk-2.0.31360 I noticed that several symbolic links get left in /usr/lib after package removal, pointing to non-existent files. They are;

/usr/lib64/libcl_logger.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libcl_logger.so
/usr/lib64/libclang_compiler.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libclang_compiler.so
/usr/lib64/libclbltfne9.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libclbltfne9.so
/usr/lib64/libclbltfnh8.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libclbltfnh8.so
/usr/lib64/libclbltfnu8.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libclbltfnu8.so
/usr/lib64/libclbltfny8.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libclbltfny8.so
/usr/lib64/libcpu_device.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libcpu_device.so
/usr/lib64/libintelocl.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libintelocl.so
/usr/lib64/libtask_executor.so -> OpenCL/vendors/intel/libtask_executor.so


Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) 2013-03-02 10:22:47 UTC]

Those files are not related to intel-ocl-sdk per se, but to eselect opencl. After uninstalling intel ocl you should choose new opencl implementation and those files will be gone

[Comment 2 Jason Lamb 2013-03-02 14:17:43 UTC]

Thanks for the clarification.

To be clear this condition existed after I had removed the opencl USE flag from my environment, and run emerge --depclean, which removed not only;

dev-util/intel-ocl-sdk-2.0.31360

but also

sys-process/numactl-2.0.8
app-admin/eselect-opencl-1.1.0-r1
virtual/opencl-0-r2

Based on your clarification I'm not sure if upon removal of virtual/opencl-0-r2 whether these links should be removed or not so, I just manually removed them.

Thanks again..

[Comment 3 Kacper Kowalik (Xarthisius) (RETIRED) 2013-03-02 16:12:39 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Thanks for the clarification.
> 
> To be clear this condition existed after I had removed the opencl USE flag
> from my environment, and run emerge --depclean, which removed not only;
> 
> dev-util/intel-ocl-sdk-2.0.31360
> 
> but also
> 
> sys-process/numactl-2.0.8
> app-admin/eselect-opencl-1.1.0-r1
> virtual/opencl-0-r2
> 
> Based on your clarification I'm not sure if upon removal of
> virtual/opencl-0-r2 whether these links should be removed or not so, I just
> manually removed them.

They're created outside of portage, that's why they're left behind after you uninstall app-admin/eselect-opencl. TBH I don't know how to deal with it. I thinkg I'd need to craft something clever in pkg_postrm.