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From: walt <w41ter@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?
Date: Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:00:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <mdku4v$ma6$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1420373943.23308.0@numa-be>

On 01/04/2015 04:19 AM, Helmut Jarausch wrote:
> Hi,
> I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world
> contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files
> before.

Same thing just happened to me two months later.  Weird.  I updated this
machine early this morning but /var/lib/world is still dated yesterday
afternoon, and contains only the packages I updated manually yesterday.

Portage evidently had a major brainfart yesterday because I know I didn't
edit the world file myself :/




  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-03-09 20:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-04 12:19 [gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone? Helmut Jarausch
2015-01-04 13:00 ` [gentoo-user] " Hartmut Figge
2015-01-04 13:46   ` Hartmut Figge
2015-01-04 19:35 ` [gentoo-user] " Frank Steinmetzger
2015-01-04 19:38 ` Tomas Mozes
2015-03-09 20:00 ` walt [this message]
2015-03-09 23:37   ` [gentoo-user] " Andreas K. Huettel
2015-03-10 16:15   ` Marko Weber | 8000
2015-03-10 19:02     ` Mick
2015-03-11  0:51       ` walt

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