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 1Sjwys-0006Sa-Il for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:28:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9D782E08D1; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:28:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-lb0-f181.google.com (mail-lb0-f181.google.com [209.85.217.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F19FAE0653 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:27:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: by lbbgk8 with SMTP id gk8so2072939lbb.40 for ; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:27:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:from:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=o6aGw2W+nz4DP8RXBoCfC0gyMdxjMNVvrJy8W2yO9Ms=; b=JEIa1ao/KTbbmWU0RoUT1Gkc03vCioVNb5YI5jCpClwjdmWel0EkF4L/roYP3SAvTu YTJQP4tTVeq8IkKaPG6UrarU/TJ3MXubd+WxxMxw4Jl1ZGRAnYVlfjBCklyMN09s+cjN ESGeCtTcnsjWQ4sV/nd8wyIcUcLbHX9bcrCFXu+5hlJFzhklxY+V4HdkZjfh7saCGOt5 wXSkKKuoc4ezAQQLE880WzdevtqlCNNdMZDU4jqvWk1aoxPgV9p2jKf2lKv8mhn4EB2q QQntT3iaDXjfhmCVpJV6MahYOify4P6zDoDOFQ1JQ5++UjGNN2uCYgcoOQb/vXAlmEq2 yAng== Received: by 10.112.54.40 with SMTP id g8mr10016976lbp.1.1340821623910; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:27:03 -0700 (PDT) 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 Sender: paul.hartman@gmail.com Received: by 10.112.77.4 with HTTP; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:26:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Paul Hartman Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:26:43 -0500 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 9rF-53z7j9nDXy2cR5JPn37jgc8 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] eselect binutils list not matching To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: e3224d31-2dd5-4531-aa68-fa7e5a7fa5ab X-Archives-Hash: 168e81ab5acb6fa3884eac4b02fe2906 On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Mark Knecht wrote: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 8:27 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 1:27 PM, Mark Knecht wrot= e: >>> Hi, >>> =A0 One of my machines is giving an undesired response in eselect: >>> >>> c2stable ~ # eselect binutils list >>> !!! Error: Pattern =A0does 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=3D316441 > > 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.