On 6/30/11 12:00 PM, Peter Volkov wrote: > В Чтв, 30/06/2011 в 12:44 +0300, Thanasis пишет: >> on 06/30/2011 12:10 PM Thanasis wrote the following: >>> When I run eix-test-obsolete it reports a strange package: >>> >>> ... >>> The following installed packages are not in the database: >>> >>> sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources >>> sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources >>> -- >>> >>> >>> But there is no package by the name sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources. >>> Where does this come from? > > It's very possible that you've interrupted package manager during merge > phase. Is there a tool provided to clean this? If not, its probably something for emaint. What is the actual effect for the system? Occasionally I found these folder on my system as well, but I could never relate a problem to it. justin