From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QcE4d-0004Zl-0g for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:02:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 680601C049; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313BD1C049 for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.33] (unknown [78.24.3.242]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: pva) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 030DB2AC07F for ; Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:55 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] eix-test-obsolete From: Peter Volkov To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <4E0C458E.80606@asyr.hopto.org> References: <4E0C3D8D.6050302@asyr.hopto.org> <4E0C458E.80606@asyr.hopto.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 14:00:30 +0400 Message-ID: <1309428030.6797.7.camel@tablet> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.3 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4f82ae78d8eadfae8479a022df861ed0 =D0=92 =D0=A7=D1=82=D0=B2, 30/06/2011 =D0=B2 12:44 +0300, Thanasis =D0=BF= =D0=B8=D1=88=D0=B5=D1=82: > on 06/30/2011 12:10 PM Thanasis wrote the following: > > When I run eix-test-obsolete it reports a strange package: > >=20 > > ... > > The following installed packages are not in the database: > >=20 > > sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources > > sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources > > -- > >=20 > >=20 > > But there is no package by the name sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-source= s. > > Where does this come from? It's very possible that you've interrupted package manager during merge phase. > It must be some kind of transient emerge side effect, but it happens no > matter if at that time something gets merged or not. Check /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel I guess it has -MERGING-gentoo-sources directory. Probably it's safe to remove it. -- Peter.