Re: [gentoo-dev] emerge issue when package does not unmerge correctly

[Dan Armak]

On Sunday 30 December 2001 18:32, you wrote:
> Just try unmerging it again; it should do the right thing.

It doesn't.

Details: I did the following test:
1) create a completely empty app-admin/foo/foo-1.ebuild.
2) emerge it.
3) edit /var/db/pkg/app-admin/foo-1/foo-1.ebuild to say "exit 1".
4) modify /usr/portage/app-admin/foo/foo-1.ebuild to say:
src_install() { dodir /tmp; }
to differentiate it by its CONTENTS from the one istalled.
5) emerge app-admin/foo again. It is merged, and e.g. CONTENTS is updated; 
but unmerging fails, and the old foo-1.ebuild is kept in 
/var/db/pkg/app-admin/foo-1, even though all other files (CONTENTS, USE, 
RDEPEND...) are apparently updated.

So, there's a problem. 

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Dan Armak
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team
Matan, Israel