From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CDE47158087 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:06:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 170412BC049; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:06:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (mail.digimed.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0F05F2BC032 for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:06:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (fenchurch.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 7563C59CEA for ; Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:06:41 +0000 (GMT) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 18:06:36 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to diagnose version conflicts? Message-ID: <20220112180636.473afb6d@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <20220112152854.6e16a904@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.18.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 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 X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Sig_/mLDhaWFI9Dx4lbwTLuXPFRF"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha256 X-Archives-Salt: 93d32d28-41b2-4129-a33e-2c2c264a0867 X-Archives-Hash: b04286b50fe6a3b89e9e54a816b2a035 --Sig_/mLDhaWFI9Dx4lbwTLuXPFRF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 12 Jan 2022 16:25:29 -0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > > If it was installed through portage, there would have been an ebuild > > for it, in /var/db/pkg. =20 >=20 > Yes, correct past tense. There was at some point in the past when > ipkg-utils was installed. >=20 > > That's what portage was referencing when if made the dependency > > calculations. =20 >=20 > There was no ipkg ebuild. There had been in the past, but it was > removed during an emerge --sync a while back. Last rites on 1 Aug > 2020, removal 30 days later: > https://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org/msg90135.html The ebuild would still have been on /var/db/pkg as long as it was installed. > My conclusion was that dependency info for currently installed > packages is also stored somewhere else, since emerge still knew that > python-2.7 was required for ipkg-utils. Yes, in /var/db/pkg. That contains all the ebuild and data for installed packages, independently of what is currently in the portage tree. --=20 Neil Bothwick I'm Pink, Therefore I'm Spam --Sig_/mLDhaWFI9Dx4lbwTLuXPFRF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEE8k9T/rX16EJxEKG692eFu0QSMJgFAmHfGKwACgkQ92eFu0QS MJixBA//agnElr0eyZQh+7ErgqXcjzAemmfXNZP5rGD5xhp7YR2W3EbL9CEpBXc0 Q+UKD2yAJChBNdYnvC3texPS7K36rXSX6qup4dH3P5THYT49XL9aFTehK0Ob9oI3 BgS/Z8pDBVuattcHpcJ4gRXTMQRdiZQkVLRYE9BXfZ1KZUH7z0HLjyaBzhgpg6MN 6jcq0mADo3m3gj5cW+lw1p77KcNgL7E33YagIxPHkIjZuY3IWlDSCeSlPPFbpYmV RZWmQs/Klra98eGxkXJM1dZL0u5IOAMji5GRplOSIGpIXmuF1lx2iBOiOGF2GVEG jUAv65yIS5pCiRTxVlvrAs8RLlC1uiZa90pul/EEn2W7Kl6+pNUDeAlQoBoDoBEK e6EZjrcycKS6rc2/MAIXBPGMzCpHEeyo0sl9C15U8b61/mQ6tkq5wmRGkVCDgJ8C kQ7xdKOvAvqrxkn1DpaJUinAZ/jC5/fDA4KuvBL75kNGpYNX8R7T7jdqKqwO8ISM LjfCJnSDNFvPrWsZTvaW6qxKHz9MoDiXHfX5XB+u7hLSGR322yeDoswfSi+H5OEx 5L7DjXg6cw2G6HsNstsotKoOKb5xNcQ/xaT50HPmom1BV9tjHLcDrlan5SJQXGYy +WY+gGmem9+kr6diu7VwF4QSwtSrRwxG0UdVgRAoOdrw8rwHCJU= =uyj9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/mLDhaWFI9Dx4lbwTLuXPFRF--