Gentoo Archives: gentoo-server

From: Andy Dustman <farcepest@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-server@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-server] Emerge failing when removing old package
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:08:37
Message-Id: 9826f380041104070835468340@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-server] Emerge failing when removing old package by Karl Zander
1 On Wed, 03 Nov 2004 11:10:15 -0500, Karl Zander
2 <gentoolist@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > I updated to a newer version of the Shorewall firewall. The install went
4 > fine. But when portage was cleaning up it failed to remove the old
5 > version. It was an older version of Shorewall that had already been
6 > removed from portage.
7
8 The log output is not too useful here; the output from emerge would be
9 better. However, I too have had this problem on occasion. The solution
10 is:
11
12 # rm -r /var/db/pkg/net-firewall/shorewall-1.4.7c
13
14 Most likely the files have been unmerged from the system by the time
15 you are getting the error, so this just makes Portage forget it was
16 installed.
17
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19 Computer interfaces should never be made of meat.