Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Marc Joliet wrote:
> On Sunday 13 September 2015 22:46:01 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
> [...]
>
> Just for the record, but I think emaint (part of portage) should be capable of 
> fixing this automatically (specifically, it's "merges" command).  It can do a 
> couple more things, so check it out anyway.  (Also, per the news item "New 
> portage plug-in sync system" from 2015-02-02, "emaint sync" is going to become 
> the preferred way of syncing the portage tree and overlays.)
>
> HTH


Based on what I read on one of the links someone else provided, that
could be what failed.  From what I get about how this works.  Portage
compiles the stuff and then puts it in that directory to be merged onto
the main file system.  Once that is done, it should delete that
directory but for some reason, it doesn't on rare occasions. When it
gets left, eix-test-obsolete catches it and then confuses the user. 

If it were more consistent, I'd think a bug report would be in order but
since we can't reproduce this thing on a regular basis, I think it would
be pointless. 

Dale

:-)  :-)