[gentoo-dev] emerge --clean error [small summary]

[gentoo-dev] emerge --clean error [small summary]

[Johannes Findeisen]

hello gentoo devs,

i have found some problems in the --clean function of portage.

[1] when i do the following:

#emerge -c pam-login

i can't login after this anymore. i have fixed it with connecting to my server 
through ssh and do 

#emerge pam-login

after that everything works fine again, but what do people with only one pc 
do?

[2] when i do:

#emerge -c apache
#emerge -c samba

i can't start them anymore because some binaries in:
/usr/sbin/
was missing (apache, smbd and nmbd).

[3] when i do:

kern1 root # emerge -pc java-config

>>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:

 dev-java/java-config
    selected: 0.2.4-r1
   protected: 0.2.4
     omitted: none

>>> Packages in red are slated for removal.
>>> Packages in green will not be removed.

you can see, that portage wants to unmerge the -r1 version, although it is the 
newest version? when i do:
#emerge -c java-config
#emerge -pu world

it lists me java-config-0.2.4-r1 for updating again.

i got the same problem with some other apps too (apache i think). i have done:
#emerge -C apache
#emerge apache
to get the newest version running. i know, that this is not the solution 
because some apps needs older libs etc. i do this only with apps like samba 
or apache where i know, that i can emerge the newest version and everything 
works fine again.

for me it's not a problem because i'm working very carefull with the emerge -c 
function since my production server was totally shot down after i have run 
emerge -c

i know now that this is not a stable function, so i do:
#emerge -pc foopackage
#emerge -c foopackage
and i'm making a list of all packages i've unmerged on a sheet of paper on my 
desktop. a can then remerge a package when some things are working not right.

i know, that some parts of this has been posted allready. i do this because i 
don't need help, but find a solution for this.

i'll submit this as a bug to bugs.gentoo.org in the next days because i want 
to test the things that happend one more this weekend. reports of it will 
follow here...

regards 
hanez ... ;-)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge --clean error [small summary]

[Grant Goodyear]

On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 05:19, Johannes Findeisen wrote:
> hello gentoo devs,
> 
> i have found some problems in the --clean function of portage.
[snip]

Please post this quite helpful summary as a bug on bugs.gentoo.org.

Thanks!
-g2boojum-