From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B84F11393F1 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:24:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 27E4721C035; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:24:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yk0-f169.google.com (mail-yk0-f169.google.com [209.85.160.169]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1A1C521C005 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:24:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ykdt18 with SMTP id t18so128868319ykd.3 for ; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:24:39 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0tgwsMRGEe4HelQQRQJisgG+PraDu9xX3+XikHtCeCk=; b=f6Rl5vOXHxE2tDT0LR4TP62WtXFePXKsWgCLcGOmNMZ3rqiS/zDiX9PAILYkCWYYcq eMxz66M7Ych3TO06XH8Efft8QO7N6GdVY1MLwjx0G2cy4wU6eCfsh3fsKpsv/yfyuHQA 7BsHwuNhRA2QjtVWekDVyZ2QOQXs+8N5NCKUXxfpt6T18PZbHWf7YnQgyyyJCBDa9dzE tGap79Cjrg+eeceOVNQp+ygIeRik2vdOsKc7si5XcEoGI7E7k4TkVUKJjXD89uftro5a ShnBxQ8gWAffZUcU1GpZcilpXGXxGCbhFXfo8DEA8Njy29bDJUR3jyjXPhJq1CF0ox6v ElcA== X-Received: by 10.129.23.211 with SMTP id 202mr12796025ywx.102.1442229879086; Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:24:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-65-0-115-33.jan.bellsouth.net. [65.0.115.33]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id c127sm9260884ywe.30.2015.09.14.04.24.38 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Mon, 14 Sep 2015 04:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <55F6AE75.9070601@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:24:37 -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> <35177381.5eCnUkSVoi@thetick> In-Reply-To: <35177381.5eCnUkSVoi@thetick> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: fb626a9f-07de-4bf2-b461-21e40177d48d X-Archives-Hash: bfd3ad76b8e30a28b05cc6c65b901c20 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 :-) :-)