On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:11:53 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
emerge --depclean:

Calculating dependencies... done!
* Broken soname dependencies found:
*
* x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: libgdbm_compat.so.3 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: liblttng-ust.so.0 required by:
* dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-6.0.100
*
* x86_64: libreadline.so.6 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: libgdbm.so.3 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: libbz2.so.1.0 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*

No packages selected for removal by depclean

What does it even mean?

(And before anyone asks, the software works just fine, and neither revdep-rebuild nor revdep-rebuild.sh find anything wrong.)

Revdep-rebuild won't work because vmware-workstation is a binary package.
You may need to add a file to /etc/revdep-rebuild that adds the vmware
path (somewhere in /opt?) to SEARCH_DIRS_MASK.


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On 2021-12-12 18:11+0200 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
emerge --depclean:

Calculating dependencies... done!
* Broken soname dependencies found:
*
* x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: libgdbm_compat.so.3 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: liblttng-ust.so.0 required by:
* dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-6.0.100
*
* x86_64: libreadline.so.6 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: libgdbm.so.3 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*
* x86_64: libbz2.so.1.0 required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
*

No packages selected for removal by depclean

What does it even mean?

It means the binary wants to load some libraries (like libexpat.so)
portage can't find.

(And before anyone asks, the software works just fine, and neither revdep-rebuild nor revdep-rebuild.sh find anything wrong.)

But vmware (or rather, the linker) seems to find them. Maybe they are in
the same directory as the binary and portage doesn't search there? You
can check which libraries exactly the binary wants to load with ldd.

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On 12/12/2021 18:41, Neil Bothwick wrote:

On Sun, 12 Dec 2021 18:11:53 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
emerge --depclean:

Calculating dependencies... done!
* Broken soname dependencies found:
*
* x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
[...]

Revdep-rebuild won't work because vmware-workstation is a binary package.
You may need to add a file to /etc/revdep-rebuild that adds the vmware
path (somewhere in /opt?) to SEARCH_DIRS_MASK.

This is already the case:

SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt/vmware"

As I said, revdep-rebuild does not find anything to rebuild and prints
nothing. It's "emerge --depclean" that shows these messages.

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On 12/12/2021 18:57, tastytea wrote:

On 2021-12-12 18:11+0200 Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@gmail.com> wrote:

After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
emerge --depclean:

Calculating dependencies... done!
* Broken soname dependencies found:
* x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
* app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1
[...]
* x86_64: liblttng-ust.so.0 required by:
* dev-dotnet/dotnet-sdk-bin-6.0.100
[...]

It means the binary wants to load some libraries (like libexpat.so)
portage can't find.

(And before anyone asks, the software works just fine, and neither
revdep-rebuild nor revdep-rebuild.sh find anything wrong.)

But vmware (or rather, the linker) seems to find them. Maybe they are in
the same directory as the binary and portage doesn't search there? You
can check which libraries exactly the binary wants to load with ldd.

Example:

$ ldd /opt/vmware/lib/vmware-installer/3.0.0/python/lib/lib-dynload/readline.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so
ldd: warning: you do not have execution permission for `/opt/vmware/lib/vmware-installer/3.0.0/python/lib/lib-dynload/readline.cpython-39-x86_64-linux-gnu.so'
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffde924c000)
libreadline.so.6 => not found

It seems the new portage version does these checks now. Is there a way
to opt-out of those checks?

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On 12/12/2021 18:11, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

After upgrading from portage 3.0.28 to 3.0.30, I get this when doing
emerge --depclean:

Calculating dependencies... done!
 * Broken soname dependencies found:
 *
 *   x86_64: libexpat.so required by:
 *     app-emulation/vmware-workstation-16.2.1.18811642-r1

Mystery solved. This functionality was always there though --ignore-soname-deps, but disabled by default. The new default is --ignore-soname-deps=n, which triggers those.

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