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aegean_linux

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Registered: 2006-01-10

Posts: 16

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[PACMAN-BROKEN] A tool for detecting broken files on your PC

http://www.aegeanlinux.be:81 --> "AegeanLinux Pacman Utilities Repository" --> trunk/ --> pacman-broken.

This is basicly a quick hack of Gentoo's revdep-rebuild to enable pacman-broken to 1) run 2) WORK!!!

Example Run:

[root@aegean:~]# ./revdep-rebuild
 > pacman-broken is detecting where to look ...
 > Checking reverse dependencies...

:: Collecting system binaries and libraries...                                                                                      [DONE]
:: Collecting complete LD_LIBRARY_PATH...                                                                                           [DONE]
:: Checking dynamic linking consistency...                                                                                          [BUSY]
  broken /usr/bin/exrdisplay (requires  libfltk.so.1.1 libfltk_gl.so.1.1)
  broken /usr/bin/memusagestat (requires  libgd.so.2)
  broken /usr/lib/win32/cook.so (requires  libstdc++.so.5)
  broken /usr/lib/win32/drvc.so (requires  libstdc++.so.5)
 done.
  (/root/.revdep-rebuild.3_rebuild)
                                                                                                                                    [DONE]

 > Dynamic linking on your system is consistent... All done.

So as you can see, it is easier now to upgrade to (for example) the testing repository, and have less upgrade issues.

If there are any features you would like to add, please add them to my bug-tracker ( http://bugs.aegeanlinux.be ). I will be more than happy.

One feature that I am going to add is to tell which package is broken, eg instead of:

broken /usr/lib/win32/drvc.so (requires  libstdc++.so.5)

it will say

broken /usr/lib/win32/drvc.so [codecs 20060611-1] (requires  libstdc++.so.5)

   - Tim

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brazzmonkey

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From: between keyboard and chair

Registered: 2006-03-16

Posts: 818

Re: [PACMAN-BROKEN] A tool for detecting broken files on your PC

looks interesting. i'll try that tonite. along with modules-rebuild, it's one of the most useful gentoo script.

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