Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Monday 14 September 2015 15:50:20 wraeth wrote:

> Granted I don't know your setup, but having nothing installed from
> sys-fs/* seems a little odd to me. For example, I have the following
> packages installed from the sys-fs category:
> 
> eix -cI\#C sys-fs
> sys-fs/btrfs-progs
> sys-fs/cryptsetup
> sys-fs/e2fsprogs
> sys-fs/fuse
> sys-fs/lvm2
> sys-fs/ntfs3g
> sys-fs/udev
> sys-fs/udev-init-scripts
> sys-fs/udisks
> 
> Accordingly, I have the following in /var/db/pkg/sys-fs/
> 
> ls -lhn /var/db/pkg/sys-fs
> total 0
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 534 2015-09-14 09:51 btrfs-progs-4.2
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:14 cryptsetup-1.6.8
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 12:56 e2fsprogs-1.42.13
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 494 2015-09-10 18:29 fuse-2.9.4
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 526 2015-09-10 21:41 lvm2-2.02.116
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 520 2015-09-10 11:13 ntfs3g-2015.3.14
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 538 2015-09-10 22:21 udev-225
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 464 2015-09-10 19:02 udev-init-scripts-30
> drwxr-xr-x 1 0 0 512 2015-09-11 03:26 udisks-2.1.6
> 
> If you legitimately don't have anything installed from the sys-fs
> category, then all should be safe I guess; but if you do, then other
> mysteries may be afoot...

I think Dale meant that the -MERGING- directory under /var/db/pkg/sys-fs was 
empty.

This happened to me once too, and I asked about it here. As soon as someone 
said it was a temporary directory used during the merging of a package, all 
became clear - it should have been removed at the end of the merge but for 
some reason it hadn't.

-- 
Rgds
Peter