Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Luke <spooq@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] minor update problem
Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 22:49:41
Message-Id: 20020109045003Z115409-23806+18@trolltech.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] minor update problem by "Damon M. Conway"
1 On Wed, 9 Jan 2002 13:55, you wrote:
2 > spooq@×××××.com wrote:
3 > >Hello,
4 > >
5 > >Ive upgraded my system using emerge update, and now it seems
6 > >that I have a lot of old packages that I cant uninstall because the
7 > >ebuilds have disappeared! Even after rsyncing they dont reappear.
8 >
9 > The ebuild files are stored in /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>-<ver>/. To
10 > unmerge a package do:
11 >
12 > ebuild /var/db/pkg/<category>/<app>-<ver>/<app>-<ver>.ebuild
13 >
14 > kabau
15
16 Thanks :)
17
18 Could you tell me if its safe to delete sys-libs/glibc-2.2.4-r2 now that I
19 have sys-libs/glibc-2.2.4-r9?
20
21 --
22 Luke