Note to self: run this once in a while…
revdep-rebuild -X -i -aShould clean things up. I needed to do this to fix a nasty change to the libexpat library that wasn’t handled cleanly by portage.
I’ve seen this suggested as a simpler alternative. Take the packages from the output and re-emerge them.
equery depends dev-libs/expatMove on.
Yeah… Fedora has been slowly becoming my nemesis, mainly due to the mismanagement – or rather, the lack of management – of its repositories. If Fedora doesn’t adopt strong repo management at some point, it might as well stop calling itself a linux distribution.
I have been running a stable FC4 server for years, no complaints. But ironically, my undoing came about because I resisted the temptation to upgrade for long enough that eventually doing even the most minor security upgrade would be a huge repo dependency nightmare. A FC5 upgrade attempt was too much and I found myself with a dead server.
And Red Hat just seems to be getting more and more hands-off. I understand their logic, but who wants to volunteer to help with a distro that is still basically managed by someone else? It doesn’t make the best sense. And this bit me hard: I opted for a full Fedora 7 install from DVD, and found it had a severe kernel bug that allowed me to get through the installation and reboot into a completely trashed system that would give me a kernel panic before I could do anything… (and I am not alone…) I knew I needed to move away from it, and that was the proverbial straw…
If I hear one more ignorant person complain that gentoo is for ricers… do me a favor, try it or STFU. It gives you the most transparent access to your linux system, the way it was intended. Having a kernel tailored to your hardware is the way it should be. Using someone else’s binaries is like sharing underwear. (Man I’m feeling ranty!) And IMHO no other distro except perhaps Ubuntu is in the ballpark of gentoo’s stability, availability of new releases, and documentation quality. So just shut up, all you gentoo virgins. Besides, I can rice 183% if I want to! 😛
The server has been rebuilt and is mostly back up and running… someone talk me out of trying to run my own cyrus IMAP server before it kills me…
