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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-dev] Re: news regarding mysql 5.1 incomplete
From:       Nikos Chantziaras <realnc () arcor ! de>
Date:       2010-02-25 1:00:55
Message-ID: hm4i43$57h$2 () dough ! gmane ! org
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On 02/25/2010 02:44 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 01:45:31PM +0100, Hanno Böck wrote:
>> Just noticed yesterday an issue with the upgrade documentation in the news
>> regarding mysql 5.1 and revdep-rebuild.
>>
>> It suggests running
>> # revdep-rebuild --library libmysqlclient.so.15
>> but this is not enough. mysql has more than one library and not all
>> applications link against the main lib.
>>
>> On a server system (which uses as-needed), I encountered two packages (apr-
>> util and mysql-python) only linking against libmysqlclient_r.so.
>>
>> So at least when mysql 5.1 gets stable, we should correct this.
> News item updated now. It looks like qt-sql might have been linking to
> libmysqlclient_r too.
>
> I didn't catch it myself as I used the @preserved-rebuild support in
> newer Portage.

Doesn't revdep-rebuild support regular expressions?  You might want to 
use one to catch all linkages.


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