From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P6Pup-0001m0-GP for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:40:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AA59E04EC; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:39:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF01EE04EC for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 15:39:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so8490314wyf.40 for ; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:39:26 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=iSKpRqQsMfqXg3Ha/XLljp6Fw7a3p9ct0BptQOOx0Vc=; b=i81FpILk+QzrF8e335lT+Ru/Y/2Fc09ERPPsHUirWc2ikQj+8b2pZnF3hI4YuEGGpK nNaaxWF18QPImwV358kfADm9BW8IJNRcaXKb5wKIct/ghwHKWBUdtWVb1adcqSnDO6Bp K0/Z/6DTO+1xCx6H8M/v3rj1RWRz7jy3f2o6w= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; b=WfzvriR/7deQZIWD+fry816cMTBfPiHKlFt0Yqfb7KabhDqrcrzQUfH0ZYiXDc9pLu Baw6P2xrEDxPiFng6ERDDcSgage241wdvymY1eN6aO2gLRqghNS83Aoxd3lJBZP1oDy5 PPliFqAgmzd1ONfzgdkG/aO4CAk5rDci7DrUk= 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 Received: by 10.216.156.21 with SMTP id l21mr140211wek.83.1287070765874; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:39:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.216.176.21 with HTTP; Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:39:25 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20101014093648.22c9f0f4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> References: <20101014093648.22c9f0f4@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 08:39:25 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge --unmerge fails From: Hilco Wijbenga To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Archives-Salt: aeaf4669-d0c9-4842-bd25-8bc6991a3dbb X-Archives-Hash: dace5fc34e2d7b061f7589990b2e25d7 On 14 October 2010 01:36, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:52:14 -0700, Hilco Wijbenga wrote: >> > Have you tried upgrading to the latest version of Portage 2.2? The >> > newest version in the tree is currently portage-2.2_rc95, while you're >> > still using portage-2.2_rc67. Perhaps there's a bug causing this that >> > was fixed in subsequent release? >> >> I didn't really want to be running cutting edge portage but it did >> solve my problem. I can unmerge again. :-) > > 2.2 is cutting edge, that's why it's masked. If you're going to run > cutting edge, you may as well use the sharpest version. True. Would it be safe to downgrade to the latest 2.1?