From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A6C1393F1 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:37:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AA9AF21C11A; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:37:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7795821C006 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:37:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01a.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZbPGQ-0000wT-N0 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 08:37:26 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 09:37:26 +0100 Message-ID: <1479262.IUlZziAX96@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <55F6601C.5070302@wraeth.id.au> References: <55F642F9.5020402@gmail.com> <55F65C7B.6090608@gmail.com> <55F6601C.5070302@wraeth.id.au> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01a-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 4a299342-eeda-4b6f-a426-06ddd67a0ce8 X-Archives-Hash: f87cc871ce53fb5799972c23acb3c9da 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