[gentoo-user] Problem with eclean-pkg

[gentoo-user] Problem with eclean-pkg

[Peter Humphrey]

Hello list,

I want to clean out some dross before my routine backup, but eclean falls 
over with this error:

# eclean-pkg
 * Building file list for packages cleaning...
 * Cleaning binary packages...
!!! Could not get stat info for:/usr/portage/packages/dev-lang/python-3.1.2-
r4.tbz2

!!! Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/dev-
lang/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2'


eix doesn't show such a version of python, so where is it coming from?

-- 
Rgds
Peter			Linux Counter number 5290

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with eclean-pkg

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 3:04 PM, Peter Humphrey
<peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote:
<SNIP>
>
> !!! Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/dev-
> lang/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2'
>
>
> eix doesn't show such a version of python, so where is it coming from?

Cruft left over somewhere? Possibly try:

locate python-3.1.2-r4

HTH,
Mark

[gentoo-user] Re: Problem with eclean-pkg

[James]

Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:


> > !!! Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/usr/portage/packages/dev-
> > lang/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2'

> > eix doesn't show such a version of python, so where is it coming from?

> Cruft left over somewhere? Possibly try:

> locate python-3.1.2-r4

So be careful:

Use something like this and make
sure no other versions of python are removed


emerge -Cp =dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4

check and then issue again, with the -p option....

hth,
James

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with eclean-pkg

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 14:56:28 James wrote:
> Mark Knecht <markknecht <at> gmail.com> writes:
> > > !!! Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
> > > '/usr/portage/packages/dev- lang/python-3.1.2-r4.tbz2'
> > > 
> > > eix doesn't show such a version of python, so where is it coming
> > > from?
> > 
> > Cruft left over somewhere? Possibly try:
> > 
> > locate python-3.1.2-r4
> 
> So be careful:
> 
> Use something like this and make
> sure no other versions of python are removed
> 
> 
> emerge -Cp =dev-lang/python-3.1.2-r4

Thank you both. Looks like Mark is right. Genlop shows that this version was 
installed on 9 Feb and that version 3.1.3-r1 superseded it on 27 Feb. 3.1.2-
r4 certainly doesn't exist on this box now, except as a package and some log 
files, so I think I'll just remove those and shrug my shoulders.

Perhaps this is a weakness of eclean: it depends on the current tree 
containing details of the package it's considering deleting. When those have 
gone, it falls over.

-- 
Rgds
Peter			Linux Counter number 5290

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Problem with eclean-pkg

[Peter Humphrey]

On Tuesday 26 July 2011 21:21:49 Peter Humphrey wrote:

> Thank you both. Looks like Mark is right. Genlop shows that this version
> was installed on 9 Feb and that version 3.1.3-r1 superseded it on 27
> Feb. 3.1.2- r4 certainly doesn't exist on this box now, except as a
> package and some log files, so I think I'll just remove those and shrug
> my shoulders.

In fact I had to remove the 2.6.6-r2 packages as well. I don't know why 
eclean fell over on that version, as the ebuild is in the tree.

Anyway, eclean has now reduced the size of my backup by 1.1GB, which was the 
object of the exercise.

-- 
Rgds
Peter			Linux Counter number 5290