I recently bumped my primary email/database/webserver box up to date. Now all my gentoo boxes are past the annoyingly useless tweaks required for gentoo’s baselayout2. I love gentoo land, where every bit of pain is a lesson. This one included… (continued…)
The Digital Machine hive has moved, after massive disturbance to the nest. To chronicle the story… (continued…)
I have been so happy with my gentoo boxes lately, having had zero problems for the past few months, and no itch to bump. I must have lucked out and hit a really stable spot in the ever-changing world of open source.
But I don’t want to get too comfortable. Much longer and I probably won’t have a clean upgrade path. Besides, I think I smell something shiny out there somewhere… Seriously, I am looking forward to the latest XBMC changes. That software absolutely rocks.
Here we go! (continued…)
There’s all kinds of noise out there about this breakage, but this bug has the most accurate information. Fix:
emerge -1 redland; emerge -1 soprano; emerge -1 kdelibsCarry on… sigh…
To get through “libpng12” errors on latest [emerge world] (it apears that libpng14 went stable before its time :0)…
gcc-config -l
gcc-config (pick most recent number)
lafilefixer --justfixit
revdep-rebuild -i (a bunch of times, unemerging old blockers)
emerge --unmerge libpng
emerge libpng
emerge libpng:1.2 (see here for the whole ugly story)
lafilefixer --justfixit
etc....Still working on this… Note that one way to find all the libraries that need libpng12 is…
grep png12 `find /usr/lib64/ -name '*.la'`… but that’s a LOT OF SHIT. :>
Still going… lots of [emerge -Davu world] and [emerge –skipfirst –resume] attempts… and this to get past lots of kde blockers…
emerge --unmerge kde-base/solidautoeject kde-base/soliduiserver kde-base/kontactinterfaces kde-base/solid-hardware kde-base/akonadi
