From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Oddity in eix database
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 07:32:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4085000.R6lSecKKET@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m4l4o0$cn$1@ger.gmane.org>
On Thursday 20 November 2014 16:26:40 Martin Vaeth wrote:
> Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> > The following installed packages are not in the database:
> >
> > virtual/-MERGING-perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML
>
> portage generates such a directory or file in /var/db/pkg
> when it is merging the package. When portage exits
> (even uncleanly), this entry should be removed.
>
> If it still exists, it means that portage died in a bad
> way (strange error, power failure or kill -9 signal).
>
> It is safe to remove this file/dir from /var/db/pkg,
> but I would recommend to re-emerge the corresponding package
> (perl-CPAN-Meta-YAML in your case):
> It might be that portage has partially merged some
> files of the package but not yet all of them, or
> something similar. You might get collision messages
> when you try to re-emerge.
Ah, I see. So I have now removed the offending directory. I didn't have that
package installed (so I don't know why it left that directory, dated 6 Nov),
but I emerged it single-shot, then ran emerge --depclean, which removed it
again.
Everything tidied up neatly - thanks Martin.
--
Rgds
Peter.
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2014-11-20 10:48 [gentoo-user] Oddity in eix database Peter Humphrey
2014-11-20 16:26 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2014-11-21 7:32 ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
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