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gentunian
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 Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: firefox 3 and nspr |
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Hi,
I decided to test the new firefox. The nspr dependency package after the merge says:
| Code: | * Messages for package dev-libs/nspr-4.7.1:
* Old versions of installed libraries were detected on your system.
* In order to avoid breaking packages that depend on these old libs,
* the libraries are not being removed. You need to run revdep-rebuild
* in order to remove these old dependencies. If you do not have this
* helper program, simply emerge the 'gentoolkit' package.
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* # revdep-rebuild --library libnspr4.so.6
* # revdep-rebuild --library libplc4.so.6
* # revdep-rebuild --library libplds4.so.6
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* Once you've finished running revdep-rebuild, it should be safe to
* delete the old libraries. Here is a copy & paste for the lazy:
* # rm '/usr/lib64/nspr/libnspr4.so.6'
* # rm '/usr/lib64/nspr/libplc4.so.6'
* # rm '/usr/lib64/nspr/libplds4.so.6' |
I ran:
| Code: | | revdep-rebuild --library libnspr4.so.6 |
And then I realized that firefox 2 was being installed! wtf?
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goffrie
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| Chances are that one of the applications which linked against the old nspr also wants Firefox 2. If you use Firefox 3, make sure that you enable the xulrunner USE flag, which will stop applications from wanting Firefox 2 (linking with XULRunner instead.) |
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deno
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| Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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| Make sure you also set "USE= -firefox" for apps that have that use flag (i.e. mplayerplug-in). |
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CloseYetFar
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| Posted: Wed Jun 18, 2008 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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I got the same instructions after upgrading nspr. When I run:
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# revdep-rebuild --library libnspr4.so.6
# revdep-rebuild --library libplc4.so.6
# revdep-rebuild --library libplds4.so.6
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is the script gonna try to rebuild all the apps three times, one time for each of the commands? If so is there a way I can force it to only recompile everything once? |
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kev009
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 5:11 am Post subject: |
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Why not just run revdep-rebuild (without arguments), and let it sort it all out? Run it again until all links are clean.
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thelee
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:06 am Post subject: |
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| Perhaps this is me not understanding revdep-rebuild, but I thought that would do it, but I guess not - I have to manually run those commands. |
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thelee
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| Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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sorry to double post, but i guess it's actually because nothing is actually broken for revdep-rebuild to fix (the old libraries are still there), so you have to manually pass the arguments to force a rebuild against those.
EDIT - for anyone worried about massive rebuild times, atleast for me, after the first revdep-rebuild, the other ones didn't need to do anything, so i guess no repetivie builds. |
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CloseYetFar
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| Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2008 1:56 am Post subject: |
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| Yea, I got it all sorted out. Thanks for the help. |
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johnisevil
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I've run into the same thing but I'm confused by something that revdep-rebuild wants to revert to. It's saying it wants to pull in xulrunner-1.8.1.19. So I'm not sure why it wants to revert when Firefox 3 needs the newer version. Any ideas? |
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armin76
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:34 pm Post subject: |
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| johnisevil wrote: | | I've run into the same thing but I'm confused by something that revdep-rebuild wants to revert to. It's saying it wants to pull in xulrunner-1.8.1.19. So I'm not sure why it wants to revert when Firefox 3 needs the newer version. Any ideas? |
Thats because firefox2 and firefox3 can't be installed at the same time, but xulrunner can. At the moment i think all apps are using xulrunner-1.8. |
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johnisevil
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:57 pm Post subject: |
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| armin76 wrote: | | johnisevil wrote: | | I've run into the same thing but I'm confused by something that revdep-rebuild wants to revert to. It's saying it wants to pull in xulrunner-1.8.1.19. So I'm not sure why it wants to revert when Firefox 3 needs the newer version. Any ideas? |
Thats because firefox2 and firefox3 can't be installed at the same time, but xulrunner can. At the moment i think all apps are using xulrunner-1.8. |
I know but Firefox 3 was recently installed as well as the newer xulrunner. Now when I run revdep-rebuild it's wanting to go back to the older xulrunner. Does Firefox 3 work with the 1.8.x version of xulrunner? |
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armin76
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| Posted: Wed Dec 24, 2008 9:47 pm Post subject: |
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| johnisevil wrote: | | armin76 wrote: | | johnisevil wrote: | | I've run into the same thing but I'm confused by something that revdep-rebuild wants to revert to. It's saying it wants to pull in xulrunner-1.8.1.19. So I'm not sure why it wants to revert when Firefox 3 needs the newer version. Any ideas? |
Thats because firefox2 and firefox3 can't be installed at the same time, but xulrunner can. At the moment i think all apps are using xulrunner-1.8. |
I know but Firefox 3 was recently installed as well as the newer xulrunner. Now when I run revdep-rebuild it's wanting to go back to the older xulrunner. Does Firefox 3 work with the 1.8.x version of xulrunner? |
Nope, firefox3 is the only app that uses xul 1.9.There are some ebuilds in the tree that use xul-1.9, but i think they're masked. |
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