Re: [gentoo-dev] portage-1.8.16 doesnt unmerge

[Edward Muller]

There are still problems with the current emerge ...

I tried to do some maintenance last night after emerge --update system
and emerge didn't behave very well.

For instance ..

I had several copies of different program install so ... I would ..

emerge -S unmerge $program 

In some cases it would remove one of three or more versions, but not all
of the old versions.

In other cases it would say that it couldn't find a matching package.
Although specifying emerge unmerge package-version-info would unmerge
the old package/version I specified.

Also I purposefully removed python2.1 and postgresql* and then did an
emerge --update --pretend world and emerge complained that it couldn't
find stuff (this is from memory so forgive the bad report). I ended up
having to manually re-emerge python2.1 and postgresl 7.1.3/7.2.X to be
able to do an emerge --update --pretend world.


On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 01:44, Geert Bevin wrote:
> try emerge --help and notice that it is 'emerge unmerge realplay' and
> 'emerge --safe unmerge realplay' or 'emerge clean realplay' and 'emerge
> --all clean realplay'.
>
> On Fri, 2002-04-05 at 03:58, Stuart Bouyer wrote:
> > When trying to unmerge with the latest portage I get the following
> > errors
> >
> > emerge --all --unmerge realplay
> > !!! Error: --unmerge is an invalid option.
> >
> >
> > emerge --all unmerge realplay
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1046, in ?
> >     mymatches=localtree.dep_match(x)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2226, in
> > dep_match
> >     if not self.hasnode(mypkgdep):
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1800, in
> > hasnode
> >     myreskey=self.resolve_key(mykey)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 1749, in
> > resolve_key
> >     self.load(mykey)
> >   File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/portage.py", line 2248, in load
> >     mycat,mypkg=string.split(mykey,"/")
> > ValueError: unpack list of wrong size
> >
> > Is portage still broken?
> >
> >
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