Re: [gentoo-user] portage problems

[Daniel Pielmeier <daniel.pielmeier@googlemail.com>]

Alan McKinnon schrieb:
> On Saturday 02 February 2008, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>>> !!! Problems have been detected with your world file
>>> !!! Please run emaint --check world
>> You should also consider this! There are some invalid entries in your
>> world file. Normally this are packages which are in world but are not
>> installed on the system.
> 
> You mean "packages which are installed on the system but are not in 
> portage" surely?
> 

No! This error occurs for instance when you have a package listed in the
world file but it is not installed.

Just test it and manually put some cat/some-pkg you have not installed
in the world file and run "emerge -pv world" then portage starts
complaining, although it would install the newly added entry with its
dependencies.

Emaint checks the world file for a few problems. For entries with
invalid atoms, entries with a package that is not installed (see above
example) and entries that have a category that is not listed in
/etc/portage/categories.
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