[gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

[gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

[Helmut Jarausch]

Hi,
I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world
contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files
before.

Has the information previously kept in this file been moved to
some other place (database?)?

Many thanks for a hint,
Helmut

[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[Hartmut Figge]

Helmut Jarausch:

>I discovered that the file /var/lib/portage/world
>contains only a few lines where it contained hundreds of files
>before.

On my mostly stable Gentoo using portage 2.1.14 I have at the moment

hafi@i5_64 ~ $ wc -l /var/lib/portage/world
167 /var/lib/portage/world

Hartmut

[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[Hartmut Figge]

Hartmut Figge:

>On my mostly stable Gentoo using portage 2.1.14 I have at the moment
                                          2.2.14

Hartmut

Re: [gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

[Frank Steinmetzger]

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On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 01:19:03PM +0100, 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.

As far as I’m aware, if you say `emerge foo`, then "foo" is added to that
file. But a long time ago I switched to manually managing sets (essentials,
kde, office, etc.). If you add -1 to the emerge command, then foo is not
added to world. Perhaps you started using that argument.

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Re: [gentoo-user] world file - where has it gone?

[Tomas Mozes]

On 2015-01-04 13:19, 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.
> 
> Has the information previously kept in this file been moved to
> some other place (database?)?
> 
> Many thanks for a hint,
> Helmut

Do you specify the "oneshot" parameter when you emerge packages? Does it 
contain the packages you really need (not the dependencies)?

[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[walt]

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 :/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[Andreas K. Huettel]

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Am Montag, 9. März 2015, 21:00:29 schrieb walt:
> 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 :/


There was a buggy portage version a while ago that could do this (2.2.16). 

It was removed really quickly, but maybe you're still running it?

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Andreas K. Huettel
Gentoo Linux developer 
dilfridge@gentoo.org
http://www.akhuettel.de/

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[Marko Weber | 8000]

Hi,

tried 'regenworld' ?

marko


Am 2015-03-09 21:00, schrieb walt:
> 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 :/

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[Mick]

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On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 16:15:02 Marko Weber | 8000 wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> tried 'regenworld' ?
> 
> marko

(Please do not top post, especially when the thread you are contributing to is 
already interleaved.)

If the OP tries regenworld he could well have to spend the rest of the day 
removing many packages that he did not intend to have in his world file.  In 
addition, if his emerge.log has been removed or rotated at any point in the 
system's life, the list of packages would be incomplete.  With these two 
points in mind he could use it judiciously.

-- 
Regards,
Mick

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[gentoo-user] Re: world file - where has it gone?

[walt]

On 03/10/2015 12:02 PM, Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 Mar 2015 16:15:02 Marko Weber | 8000 wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> tried 'regenworld' ?
>>
>> marko
> 
> (Please do not top post, especially when the thread you are contributing to is 
> already interleaved.)
> 
> If the OP tries regenworld he could well have to spend the rest of the day 
> removing many packages that he did not intend to have in his world file.  In 
> addition, if his emerge.log has been removed or rotated at any point in the 
> system's life, the list of packages would be incomplete.  With these two 
> points in mind he could use it judiciously.

I did use regenworld, which added back a metric ton of packages, about a hundred
of which needed updating.  I let the machine run overnight, building all those
packages, and everything succeeded :)

Andreas, qlop shows that portage-2.2.16 was installed on Feb 9 and replaced by
2.2.15 on Feb 11 and then 2.2.17 on Feb 12.  Judging by the large number of
packages that needed updating yesterday, I'd say the problem probably did start
back in February but I didn't notice it until now.

Thanks guys.