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 EB73B1393F1 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:50:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E7A421C01A; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:50:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2000E0897 for ; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:50:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1ZblwH-0007Kn-34 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Sep 2015 08:50:09 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 09:50:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1595041.NUA0JmbFgS@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.8 (Linux/4.0.5-gentoo; KDE/4.14.8; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20150914214154.09b6c261@digimed.co.uk> References: <55F642F9.5020402@gmail.com> <1514875.66xoHtyNEu@wstn> <20150914214154.09b6c261@digimed.co.uk> 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-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: fe817b07-2de3-4617-a4b5-d85983030f2b X-Archives-Hash: 56ac8afa521ca5b928c98f9435373f77 On Monday 14 September 2015 21:41:54 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata" against > > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google > > didn't help. > > It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man page. Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint --help to find it. This is the first such case I've come across. Now that I've run emaint -f movebin and emaint -f moveinst, eix-test-obsolete takes a fraction of the time it used to. I'm now trying to decide whether to be suspicious or relieved. ;) -- Rgds Peter