TIP_Control_revdep-rebuild

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1 Introduction
2 Problems
- 2.1 Binary packages
  - 2.1.1 Solution #1
  - 2.1.2 Solution #2 (obsolete)
3 See Also

Introduction

revdep-rebuild is a nice script that is part of the app-portage/gentoolkit package. It was written to rebuild reverse dependencies on a Gentoo system that may have been broken due to unmerging or upgrading packages. While it is useful, it does have some bugs.

Problems

Binary packages

One annoying problem is that revdep-rebuild always wants to rebuild binary packages such as app-office/openoffice-bin. Here is the fix.

Solution #1

Add /usr/lib/openoffice (or /usr/lib32/openoffice for x86_64) to SEARCH_DIRS_MASK in /etc/make.conf (For other binary packages under /opt, also add /opt to SEARCH_DIRS_MASK). This only applies to gentoolkit-0.2.1 or newer.

Solution #2 (obsolete)

Note: I do not know all the repercussions of editing this script. Use at your own risk. (However, I do not think there will be any major problems.)

Edit /usr/bin/revdep-rebuild. Search for the variable SEARCH_DIRS and remove the /opt path.

That's it. Save the file and exit out. Now, OpenOffice (and any other binary package that installs to /opt) will not show up when you run revdep-rebuild.

Dont forget to:

rm /root/.revdep-rebuild*.?_*

Note: If you're sick at the idea of editing revdep-build shell script, you might edit ~/.revdep-rebuild.5_order and remove whatever you want.

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