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[65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id q2sm613258ywd.11.2015.09.13.22.21.01 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Sun, 13 Sep 2015 22:21:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55F6593C.8090507@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 00:21:00 -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> <20150914070016.6574d35e@hal9000.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20150914070016.6574d35e@hal9000.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: e784ff91-5a5d-449a-aaad-614601cd931e X-Archives-Hash: ada167b8c49cf6c3487199a57c3aed58 wabenbau@gmail.com wrote: > 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 / # >>> >>> >>> >>> Other tools report this: >>> >>> >>> >>> root@fireball / # emerge -s static-dev >>> >>> [ 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 >>> >>> :-) :-) >>> >> It's also installed on my system and probably it's a forgotten relict >> from ancient times (my last gentoo installation on this machine was >> in 2007). >> >> 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 >> for any reason. :-) >> >> -- >> Regards >> wabe > Sorry, I forgot to mention that the package is shown up when I search > for it. I don't have any clue why this is not the case for your system. > > $ eix static-dev > [I] sys-fs/static-dev > Available versions: 0.1{tbz2} > Installed versions: 0.1{tbz2}(01:46:27 08.03.2013) > Homepage: https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875 > Description: A skeleton, statically managed /dev > > > $ equery list *static-dev* > * Searching for *static-dev* ... > [IP-] [ ] sys-fs/static-dev-0.1:0 > > > $ emerge -s static-dev > > [ Results for search key : static-dev ] > Searching... > > * sys-fs/static-dev > Latest version available: 0.1 > Latest version installed: 0.1 > Size of files: 0 KiB > Homepage: https://bugs.gentoo.org/107875 > Description: A skeleton, statically managed /dev > License: GPL-2 > > [ Applications found : 1 ] > > > -- > Regards > wabe > > Yea, but what I want to get rid of is MERGING-static-dev not just static-dev. I just searched for static-dev to make sure it would find anything that matches, since that all caps part looks fishy. Dale :-) :-)