[gentoo-dev] /var/cache/edb/dep

[gentoo-dev] /var/cache/edb/dep

[Craig Joly]

Hi,
This might be a bug.  Or it might just be me.
What creates /var/cache/edb/dep?
I upgraded portage to 1.8.18 from 1.8.16 yesterday.  Immediately
afterwards emerge and ebuild partially stopped working.  clean and
search worked but installs and --pretend would die with a traceback
message and complain that /var/cache/edb/dep/dep-portage-1.8.18.ebuild
is not found.
I checked and found that there was no /var/cache/edb/dep on my system.
Fortunately, I have another Gentoo box at work, so sshed over there
and copied over that entire directory.  That solved my problem, but I
don't understand why one of my computers had it and the other didn't.

The machines have completely different USE varialbles in make.conf.
Will that cause a problem?

Craig

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Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache/edb/dep

[Nils Ohlmeier]

On Wednesday 10 April 2002 16:52, Craig Joly wrote:
> Hi,
> This might be a bug.  Or it might just be me.

It seems to be a bug.

On my workstation i have at moment also no /var/cache/edb/dep directory which 
crashes emerge everytime it tryes to calculate the deps :(
But yesterday this directory definatly existed.
On my laptop i haven't the same prob, also it have nearly the same software 
installed.

The questions is what/who deleted the dep-dir in my workstation?
And how can i get i back? Is there another way then copying it from my laptop? 
I assume that the content of the dep-dir depends on the installed soft and 
unshure if it's a good idea to copy it.

Regards
   Nils Ohlmeier

Re: [gentoo-dev] /var/cache/edb/dep

[Craig M. Reece]

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 06:46:05PM +0200,
	"Nils Ohlmeier" <lists@ohlmeier.de> spoke thusly:

> On Wednesday 10 April 2002 16:52, Craig Joly wrote:
> > Hi,
> > This might be a bug.  Or it might just be me.
> 
> It seems to be a bug.
> 
> On my workstation i have at moment also no /var/cache/edb/dep directory which 
> crashes emerge everytime it tryes to calculate the deps :(
> But yesterday this directory definatly existed.
> On my laptop i haven't the same prob, also it have nearly the same software 
> installed.
> 
> The questions is what/who deleted the dep-dir in my workstation?
> And how can i get i back? Is there another way then copying it from my laptop? 
> I assume that the content of the dep-dir depends on the installed soft and 
> unshure if it's a good idea to copy it.
> 

Just recreate it with 'mkdir /var/cache/edb/dep'. It was deleted by the
most recent portage (1.8.19) update.

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