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| author |   Repository mirror & CI <repomirrorci@gentoo.org> | 2021-11-22 11:51:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Repository mirror & CI <repomirrorci@gentoo.org> | 2021-11-22 11:51:46 +0000 |
| commit | 19e1ed1813267f3f8e481e12e941340e8bca5f8e (patch) | |
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| parent | 2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries: mention when it's ok to sk... (diff) | |
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Merge commit 'ef0cfc2c0e68299ddfa355732c76cf7d9ed83fcb'
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diff --git a/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt b/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt index 7154bc497e2e..68aa6af5e8f1 100644 --- a/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt +++ b/metadata/news/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries/2021-09-29-possible-failure-to-preserve-libraries.en.txt @@ -93,7 +93,12 @@ Step 3. Given that there are possible other side-effects of the corruption/bug, Note that binary packages may need to be discarded given they may contain corrupt metadata. - If no libraries were broken, it is likely safe to skip this step. + If no libraries were broken, it is likely safe to skip this step. It + should be sufficient, for resource-constrained machines, to simply + rebuild any broken libraries and their consumers (reverse-dependencies): + revdep-rebuild may help you do this. + + (If you do not know what that means, please proceed with Step 3.) Please see the wiki [0] for a full description of the background of this problem and handling corner cases such as e.g. already |