[gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[John covici]

Hi.  I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I
deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there.  I
did emerge --regen but still no luck.  The make.conf within layman no
longer has them, but where is the information still retained?

Thanks.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[Rostislav]

On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote:

> Hi.  I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I
> deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there.  I
> did emerge --regen but still no luck.  The make.conf within layman no
> longer has them, but where is the information still retained?

If you mean by "portage still thinks" stuff from gentoolkit like equery 
then you should do eupdatedb I believe. 

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Rostislav.
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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote:
> On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote:
> > Hi.  I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I
> > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there.  I
> > did emerge --regen but still no luck.  The make.conf within layman no
> > longer has them, but where is the information still retained?

Would be much easier to answer if you told us why you think it's still there. 
And `emerge --regen` really wasn't needed (not that it did any damage 
either).

> If you mean by "portage still thinks" stuff from gentoolkit like equery
> then you should do eupdatedb I believe.

No, that's for esearch not equery. And update-eix for eix..

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[John covici]

on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote
 > On Monday 16 April 2007 00:44:57 Rostislav wrote:
 > > On Sun, 15 Apr 2007, John covici wrote:
 > > > Hi.  I had installed layman and a couple of overlays and after I
 > > > deleted them using layman -d portage still thinks they are there.  I
 > > > did emerge --regen but still no luck.  The make.conf within layman no
 > > > longer has them, but where is the information still retained?
 > 
 > Would be much easier to answer if you told us why you think it's still there. 
 > And `emerge --regen` really wasn't needed (not that it did any damage 
 > either).
 > 
 > > If you mean by "portage still thinks" stuff from gentoolkit like equery
 > > then you should do eupdatedb I believe.
 > 
 > No, that's for esearch not equery. And update-eix for eix..

Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for
updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I
do emerge --update --deep world  I get ebuilds from the overlays and
at the end it has the [1] indicating the overlay directory.

Very strange.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:43:40 -0400, John covici wrote:

> Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for
> updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I
> do emerge --update --deep world  I get ebuilds from the overlays and
> at the end it has the [1] indicating the overlay directory.

Can you post the output from emerge --info and the contents of make.conf.


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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[John covici]

on Monday 04/16/2007 Bo Ørsted Andresen(bo.andresen@zlin.dk) wrote
 > On Monday 16 April 2007 11:41:01 John covici wrote:
 > >  > > Well, what I mean by "portage thinks" is that its still looking for
 > >  > > updates from the ebuilds in the no longer available overlays -- if I
 > >  > > do emerge --update --deep world  I get ebuilds from the overlays and
 > >  > > at the end it has the [1] indicating the overlay directory.
 > >  >
 > >  > Can you post the output from emerge --info and the contents of
 > >  > make.conf.
 > >
 > > Here is emerge --info
 > [SNIP]
 > > PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
 > > PORT_LOGDIR="/var/log/portage"
 > [SNIP]
 > 
 > So as there is no PORTDIR_OVERLAY at all this shows that portage does indeed 
 > not think that there are any overlays... Now show us the evidence from 
 > emerge -uDp world where you 'get ebuilds from the overlays and [...]'. And 

Well, here issomething which might help -- output from update-eix.

Reading Portage settings ..
Building database (/var/cache/eix) ..
[0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata)
     Reading 100%
[1] /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental (cache: eix*
[/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental])
     Reading 100%
[2] /usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla (cache: eix*
[/usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla])
     Reading 100%
Applying masks ..
Database contains 11558 packages in 149 categories.

Now why is it still reading from the non existent directories
/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental and
/usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla ?  I am reasonablyy certain if we
can solve this, my problems will be solved.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to get rid of traces of overlays?

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

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On Monday 16 April 2007 16:23:34 John covici wrote:
> Well, here issomething which might help -- output from update-eix.
>
> Reading Portage settings ..
> Building database (/var/cache/eix) ..
> [0] /usr/portage/ (cache: metadata)
>      Reading 100%
> [1] /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental (cache: eix*
> [/usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental])
>      Reading 100%
> [2] /usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla (cache: eix*
> [/usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla])
>      Reading 100%
> Applying masks ..
> Database contains 11558 packages in 149 categories.
>
> Now why is it still reading from the non existent directories
> /usr/portage/local/layman/gnome-experimental and
> /usr/portage/local/layman/mozilla ?  I am reasonablyy certain if we
> can solve this, my problems will be solved.

Because by default eix doesn't purge it's cache. You can do so manually by 
removing /var/cache/eix. I thought there was a configuration option 
in /etc/eixrc to change this behaviour too but I can't seem to find it 
again.. The "cache: eix*" means that it's aware they no longer exist outside 
the eix cache. In either case this is entirely unrelated to portage itself.

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