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

[Mark Knecht <markknecht@gmail.com>]

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.

Cheers,
Mark