Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching

[Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman
> <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>   One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect:
>>>
>>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list
>>> !!! Error: Pattern  does not match any installed version of binutils!
>>> exiting
>>> c2stable ~ #
>>
>> Mine does the same thing on 1 computer but works on 2 others. All with
>> the same versions of all involved packages. Weird.
>>
>
> Hey, at least I'm in good company if my old friend Paul Hartman sees
> the same thing. :-)
>
> There is a patch to the binutils.eselect file here that worked for me:
>
> https://423525.bugs.gentoo.org/attachment.cgi?id=316441
>
> Before patching (if you do at all - I recommend you don't patch unless
> you just want to) run this command in the directory you are running
> eselect in. (For me it was just /root)
>
> echo -*
>
> On a 'good' machine it returns
>
> -q
>
> On a 'bad' machine here it returns
>
> --help -q
>
> I don't think the machine is really bad. I think eselect was likely
> just not being selective enough about how it works with whatever is in
> the directory or search path? Not sure.
>
> If you see something different you might add it to the bug report but
> I suspect we've got the same issue.

Ah-ha. When I run the command from a directory which does not contain
any files or dirs starting with hyphen, it is fine. In my user dir
there is ~/- directory for some reason, so that must have been
confusing it.