For some funny (yet unknown) reason, the COUNTER files in /var/db/pkg on one of my boxes were messed up. This resulted in Portage wanted to
uninstall package versions that just have been installed, or generally versions that are newer than others.

To fix this, I've written a little script which you can find at http://cvs.gentoo.org/~blizzy/fix-db.pl

It simply recalculates all COUNTERs from other existing /var/db/pkg info (ie. CONTENTS).


WARNING: Make sure to backup your /var/db/pkg/* first!
You don't need to backup /var/cache/edb/counter (which it also recreates), it can be deleted safely.


(Someone please forward this message to gentoo-user. Thanks.)

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