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[65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m198sm8616516ywd.52.2015.09.13.22.14.51 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:14:51 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55F657CA.1000700@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:14:50 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0 SeaMonkey/2.33.1 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it References: <55F642F9.5020402@gmail.com> <20150914063633.72f15f31@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20150914063633.72f15f31@hal9000.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 67af87df-2b51-4da3-b51d-2bf171bca1c9 X-Archives-Hash: d24c11cfe3255f06bb5c842cc1bc8e65 wabenbau@gmail.com wrote: > Dale wrote: > >> Howdy, >> >> I ran eix-test-obsolete and in the output, I get the following: >> >> >> The following installed packages are not in the database: >> >> sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev >> -- >> >> Equery gives me this: >> >> root@fireball / # equery list *static-dev* >> * Searching for *static-dev* ... >> !!! No installed packages matching '*static-dev*' >> root@fireball / #=20 >> >> >> >> Other tools report this: >> >> >> >> root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev >> =20 >> [ Results for search key : static-dev ] >> Searching... >> >> * sys-fs/static-dev >> Latest version available: 0.1 >> Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] >> Size of files: 0 KiB >> Homepage: https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875 >> Description: A skeleton, statically managed /dev >> License: GPL-2 >> >> [ Applications found : 1 ] >> >> root@fireball / # eix static-dev >> * sys-fs/static-dev >> Available versions: 0.1 >> Homepage: https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875 >> Description: A skeleton, statically managed /dev >> >> root@fireball / # >> >> >> >> So, it's installed but I can't find it to remove it. What the heck is= >> this about? Anyone else ever run into this? Is there a way to "find"= >> it?? Can I remove it somehow?? >> >> Thanks. >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-)=20 >> > It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict f= rom=20 > ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was in 2007)= =2E > > To be honest, I never ran eix-test-obsolete. My system is running fine = and > atm I don't have much time. So I will leave it as it is. > > Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work fo= r=20 > any reason. :-) > > -- > Regards > wabe > > What gets me, that MERGING is in all caps. I don't recall ever seeing a package name with caps like that. To me, it looks like something was being installed/upgraded and during the process some cruft got left behind by portage. Now I don't know that to be true but I'm grasping at straws here. I think I built this rig about 2011 or 2012. I could dig out the invoices to be sure. Anyway, mines not as old a install as yours but it has been around for a while.=20 That has been there for a while and everything is working fine, even rebooting. Thing is, it bugs me that it is there and I don't know what exactly it is or where it came from. Also, that I can't figure out how to clean it up either. o_O I mostly want to clean it up.=20 Maybe someone else has ran into this and has a clue, or a 2 x 4. ;-)=20 Dale :-) :-)=20