Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Peter Volkov <pva@g.o>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] eix-test-obsolete
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:02:15
Message-Id: 1309428030.6797.7.camel@tablet
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] eix-test-obsolete by Thanasis
1 В Чтв, 30/06/2011 в 12:44 +0300, Thanasis пишет:
2 > on 06/30/2011 12:10 PM Thanasis wrote the following:
3 > > When I run eix-test-obsolete it reports a strange package:
4 > >
5 > > ...
6 > > The following installed packages are not in the database:
7 > >
8 > > sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources
9 > > sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources
10 > > --
11 > >
12 > >
13 > > But there is no package by the name sys-kernel/-MERGING-gentoo-sources.
14 > > Where does this come from?
15
16 It's very possible that you've interrupted package manager during merge
17 phase.
18
19 > It must be some kind of transient emerge side effect, but it happens no
20 > matter if at that time something gets merged or not.
21
22 Check /var/db/pkg/sys-kernel I guess it has -MERGING-gentoo-sources
23 directory. Probably it's safe to remove it.
24
25 --
26 Peter.

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[gentoo-amd64] [SOLVED] eix-test-obsolete Thanasis <thanasis@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-amd64] eix-test-obsolete justin <jlec@g.o>