From: Max Lorenz <anarchyisgoodforthee@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds
Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 12:30:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5557fa710602130330p45c8119crc0968fd19e4492c9@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200602131228.49154.uwix@iway.na>
On 2/13/06, Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> On 13 February 2006 11:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 21:30:13 +0200 Uwe Thiem <uwix@iway.na> wrote:
> > | while trying to fix some other problems involving revdep-rebuild, I
> > | stumbled over some ebuilds no longer in portage but still installed
> > | on my system.
> > |
> > | How can I get rid of that stuff? I mean "emerge --unmerge
> > | dead-package" won't do it because the ebuild doesn't exist any more.
> >
> > It will unless you installed said package a very long time ago. Portage
> > keeps a copy of the ebuild in the vdb when you install something.
>
> Apparently, I did install it a very long time ago because emerge told me it
> didn't know it. :-(
Well, then grab the ebuild from cvs:
http://viewcvs.gentoo.org/
> Uwe
Max
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2006-02-12 19:30 [gentoo-user] ebuilds gone to the happy hunting-grounds Uwe Thiem
2006-02-12 20:28 ` Rumen Yotov
2006-02-13 9:11 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2006-02-13 10:28 ` Uwe Thiem
2006-02-13 11:30 ` Max Lorenz [this message]
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