emerge @preserved-rebuild just keeps on rebuilding the same item I have seen this more often in the past, then a emerge -C <package> and emerge <package> could resolve the issue.. Somehow that doesn't strike me as a wise move in the case of binutils.. # eselect binutils list [1] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.25.1 [2] x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-2.26.1 * # emerge -1 @preserved-rebuild >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1::gentoo >>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1::gentoo !!! existing preserved libs found # emerge -1 @preserved-rebuild >>> Verifying ebuild manifests >>> Emerging (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1::gentoo >>> Installing (1 of 1) sys-devel/binutils-2.25.1-r1::gentoo !!! existing preserved libs found # cat /var/lib/portage/preserved_libs_registry { "sys-libs/binutils-libs:0": [ "sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27", "17064", [ "/usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so" ] ] } # eix ^binutils$ [I] sys-devel/binutils Available versions: (2.25.1) 2.25.1-r1 (2.26.1) 2.26.1 (2.27) ~2.27 (2.28) **2.28 (git) **9999 {cxx multitarget nls static-libs test vanilla zlib} Installed versions: 2.25.1-r1(2.25.1)(14:18:53 19-03-17)(cxx nls zlib -multitarget -static-libs -test -vanilla) 2.26.1(2.26.1)(19:40:21 11-03-17)(cxx nls -multitarget -static-libs -test -vanilla) Homepage: https://sourceware.org/binutils/ Description: Tools necessary to build programs # eix ^binutils-libs$ [I] sys-libs/binutils-libs Available versions: 2.25.1-r2(0/2.25.1) 2.27(0/2.27) ~2.28(0/2.28) {64-bit-bfd multitarget nls static-libs zlib ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"} Installed versions: 2.27(23:01:05 17-03-17)(nls -64-bit-bfd -multitarget -static-libs ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="32 64 -x32") Homepage: https://sourceware.org/binutils/ Description: Core binutils libraries (libbfd, libopcodes, libiberty) for external packages
Additional info: # ls -l /usr/lib/*libbfd* -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1211232 7 jun 2016 /usr/lib/libbfd-2.25.1.so -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1275928 17 mrt 23:01 /usr/lib/libbfd-2.27.so lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 17 mrt 23:01 /usr/lib/libbfd.so -> libbfd-2.27.so # equery b /usr/lib/libbfd-2.25.1.so * Searching for /usr/lib/libbfd-2.25.1.so ... sys-libs/binutils-libs-2.27 (/usr/lib64/libbfd-2.25.1.so)
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 563934 ***
ahem... just to state something obvious.... How can this be a duplicate of a revdep-rebuild issue? (Revdep issue could be solved, but that isn;t the case for @preserved-rebuild, one year later)...
(In reply to Nico Baggus from comment #3) > ahem... just to state something obvious.... > How can this be a duplicate of a revdep-rebuild issue? > > (Revdep issue could be solved, but that isn;t the case for > @preserved-rebuild, one year later)... I suspect the wranglers saw bug 586108 and did what the toolchain maintainer called a dupe. The real action needed to be taken is to depclean binutils-2.25.1-r1 to solve this issue. This would also be proposed by 'emerge --ask --depclean' which emerge tells you to do after a full world update. Once that is done, a preserved-rebuild will succeed if any references remain.
