equo update libraries alongside other apps brakes those libs

[ang]

hi,

i get the following strange issue when using equo for updating world packages, or any libs alongside other packages.

when the library gets installed during a "mass install/update", for the first time the lib does not get properly merged into the system.

for example i just merged the following 2 packages this morning using the following command:

equo install libxcb xfwm4

thatafter all apps depending on libxcb broke with for example: /usr/bin/urxvt: error while loading shared libraries: libxcb-xlib.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

another run of "equo install libxcb" fixed this issue

but why do lib installs brake when installed alongside other packages??? an equo world upgrade call a few month back involved many upgraded libs, and my whole system got unusable thatafter.

anyone knows whats going on? am i missing something?

p.s.: i am a long-time gentoo user (since 2002), and have gotten used to emerging and fixing broken libs, but why do these errors occur?

another thing: is there anything like revdep-rebuild for equo to get around these things?

[xlnagla]

Your commands are equo database libtest and equo database deptest. These effectively replace revdep-rebuild.

As for why upgrading library packages breaks installed package, it's most likely because the installed packages depend on an earlier version of the library than you have installed, just as it would be with portage. As to why the re-installation of the library fixes things I do not know, but also having used gentoo before Sabayon I usually try to avoid upgrading libraries unless I want a package that requires the updated libraries, and always test my System's integrity afterwards. However it is an interesting observation, I'll go see why it works/doesn't work.

~xlnagla

[ang]

hi, i've been using equo world update now w 3.5 branch for some time and no brakages, grats

now i changed branch to 4.0 in repositories.conf and am in the process of updating my whole system...

two important libs broke, dunno why: bzip2 and sqlite(pysqlite), and after that even python these are quite of showstoppers if not treated with emerge or something outside equo...

[sjieke]

Keep in mind that branch 4 is still in development... So you need to be prepared to fix some breakage.
Posting errors/problems you encounter can help the devs to increase the reliability (if they haven't found them thereselfs), but don't expect much support on branch 4 as it is not yet released.

[xlnagla]

what sjieke said. You'll know when 4.0 is really ready for mainstream testing and use when we establish a new shed for it. Until then we'll be busy ironing out kinks, finishing bumps to 4.0, and resolving dependencies.

~xlnagla

[lxnay]

Dude, you are running a development branch. You gotta live with it until the new release will come out