[gentoo-user] Emerge not updating the Installed database

[gentoo-user] Emerge not updating the Installed database

[Rod]

     Hi List,

     I have just updated MythTV, but when I do `emerge -s mythtv` I get 
the previous version is the installed version

# emerge -s mythtv

[ Results for search key : mythtv ]
Searching...

*  media-tv/mythtv
       Latest version available: 0.27.5_p20150627
       Latest version installed: 0.27.4_p20150124
       Size of files: 83,658 KiB
       Homepage:      http://www.mythtv.org
       Description:   Homebrew PVR project
       License:       GPL-2


     Yet, when I scroll up further, the correct version is installed (no 
errors)

 >>> Installing (1 of 1) media-tv/mythtv-0.27.5_p20150627::gentoo
  * checking 2239 files for package collisions
1000 files checked ...
2000 files checked ...
 >>> Merging media-tv/mythtv-0.27.5_p20150627 to /
<snip>
* Messages for package media-tv/mythtv-0.27.5_p20150627:

# ls -la /usr/share/doc/mythtv-0.27.5_p20150627/
total 60
drwxr-xr-x    2 root root  4096 Jul 14 18:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 1007 root root 36864 Jul 11 12:46 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  1676 Jul 14 18:33 AUTHORS.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  4833 Jul 14 18:33 keys.txt.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root root  1610 Jul 14 18:33 README.bz2
-rw-r--r--    1 root root   969 Jul 14 18:33 UPGRADING.bz2


     So, 0.27.5 is installed, yet emerge -s tells me its 0.27.4 is the 
current install?


# mythfrontend --version
Please attach all output as a file in bug reports.
MythTV Version : 9498257571e8158926b60a0eefc74568c4436823
MythTV Branch : fixes/0.27
Network Protocol : 77
Library API : 0.27.20150622-1
QT Version : 4.8.4


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       Regards,
    
       Rod Smart

[gentoo-user] Re: Emerge not updating the Installed database

[walt]

On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:55:20 +1000
Rod <Rod@Rods.id.au> wrote:

>      Hi List,
> 
>      I have just updated MythTV, but when I do `emerge -s mythtv` I
> get the previous version is the installed version
> 
> # emerge -s mythtv
> 
> [ Results for search key : mythtv ]
> Searching...
> 
> *  media-tv/mythtv
>        Latest version available: 0.27.5_p20150627
>        Latest version installed: 0.27.4_p20150124

Yep, you seem to be right :)  Someone will surely ask what version of
portage you're using, so I may as well ask it first.

I tend to use app-portage/eix instead of emerge for searching functions,
so if you're in the mood for experiments you could try installing that
and initialize its database (/var/cache/eix/portage.eix) with
eix-update.

Assuming that worked, search for mythtv with 'eix mythtv' and you
should see any available and installed versions.

This should at least distract you from worrying about a portage bug :)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Emerge not updating the Installed database

[wraeth]

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On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 04:06:16PM -0700, walt wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jul 2015 18:55:20 +1000
> Rod <Rod@Rods.id.au> wrote:
> 
> >      Hi List,
> > 
> >      I have just updated MythTV, but when I do `emerge -s mythtv` I
> > get the previous version is the installed version
> 
> Yep, you seem to be right :)  Someone will surely ask what version of
> portage you're using, so I may as well ask it first.
> 
Can you also check whether the correct package version is listed in
/var/db/pkg/media-tv (and, if the old version was removed, that the old version
is _not_ listed in there)?

-- 
wraeth <wraeth@wraeth.id.au>
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